Brown,W G E

Brown,W. G. E.

an English Congregational minister, was born at Newbury, November 8, 1806, of pious parents. He became a Sunday-school teacher at the age of sixteen; was educated at Christ Church school, and admitted into Church fellowship in 1834. He taught school at Woolhampton, Berkshire, between 1835 and 1845, and was pastor there at the same time. Thence he removed to Summertown, near Oxford, where he devoted himself entirely to the work of the ministry for three years, and then removed to Pheasant's Hill, near Henley. After ten years he entered upon his last charge, at Eversden, Cambridgeshire, where he labored sixteen years, and died, March 22, 1873. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1874, page 313.