Francis Graham Brown

Who was Francis Graham Brown?

The Rt Rev George Francis Graham Brown OBE DD was an Anglican Bishop in the second quarter of the twentieth century. Graham-Brown was educated at Monkton Combe School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. After World War I service with the King's Own Scottish Borderers and three years as a History Master at his old school he was ordained in 1922. He was successively Chaplain, Vice-Principal then Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. In 1932 he was appointed the sixth Bishop of Jerusalem, a post he held for 20 years. A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died in post on 23 November 1942 in a car accident. His grave is preserved in Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem.