BISHOP BROWN DIES AT 89

Greatest champion of Catholic schools
WITH deep regret "The Catholic Herald " records the death in London early on Sunday morning, after a brief final illness, of Mgr. William F. Brown, titular Bishop of Pella and parish priest for 58 years of St. Anne's, Vauxhall. He was 89.
A year ago Bishop Brown was so gravely ill that he received the Last Sacraments. He made an astonishing recovery for a man of his great age, and returned to his work.
The Bishop's health had been gradually deteriorating. On Friday he was moved to the Hospital of Our Lady of Consolation and received the Last Sacraments from Bishop Cowderoy. On Saturday his condition improved, but he died at I am. on Sunday after a heart failure. But for his love for his South London working-class parishioners Bishop Brown would have died as Archbishop of Glasgow. Pope Pius XI appointed him to the see soon after the first World War. The official announcement was about to he made when Mgr. Brown. after long pleading, was allowed to withdraw and remain at Vauxhall. However, he achieved for the Catholics of his native country one of their greatest boons—the "Scottish Settlement "of 1918, which ensured that the Catholic schools should he maintained entirely from public funds while their religious character was secured to the Church by law.
Children's Bishop'
He hoped that the same might be achieved for the Catholics of England and Wales, and no one campaigned hanger and more vigorously for it than this prelate-champion from Aberdeen. Moreover, all through his priestly life he fought for the material as well as spiritual welfare of his people—for decent houses, assured employment and proper food. Born in Aberdeen on May 3, 1862, Bishop Brown was the grandson of a former Lord Provost of the city. He was received into the Church in his youth and, having abandoned his original intention of joining the Indian Civil Service, studied at University College School, London, and at the now-defunct Catholic University established by Cardinal Manning in Kensington. The Cardinal ordained him in 1886.
People called him " The Children's Bishop." He knew all the Catholic children in his parish by their Christian name.
For 47 years he was Vicar General of the diocese Awing the episcopate of Archbishop Amigo and of Bishop Cowderoy, and he was Provost of the Chapter for 35 years. Archbishop Amigo consecrated him as Bishop of Pella and Auxiliary in 1924.
Pope Benedict XV appointed him Apostolic Visitor to Scotland in 1917—one of the rare occasions on uhich he visited his native country.
See page 5.
LORD PERTH
The Earl of Perth, P.C., G.C.M.G., first Secretary General of the League of Nations, and British Ambassador in Rome from 1933 to 1939, died on Saturday at the age of 75.
He, like Bishop Brown, was a convert. An Old Etonian, he was received into the Church at Downside when he was 27. And he too was a champion of the Catholic schools for many years. Sec page x.
Arthur Sinclair, a distinguished Irish actor, died in Belfast on Friday. See page 5.