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WE regret to record the death of Emeritus Prof. Gerard Baldwin Brown, which took place at Edinburgh on July 12, at the age of eighty-two years. Born in London on Oct. 31? 1849, he was educated at Uppingham and Oriel College, Oxford?of which later he became a fellow?obtaining a second class in Honour Moderations and a first class in Literæ Humaniores in 1873. His success in winning the Chancellor?s prize for an essay on?The Short Period during which Art has remained at its Zenith in Different Countries? was an early indication of the bent of his mind, a bent which was further strengthened by his election as a fellow of Brasenose College, where he was brought into touch with Pater. He left Oxford to take up painting in London, and was afterwards appointed the first Watson-Gordon professor of fine art in the University of Edinburgh, at the early age of thirty-one. This chair he held for fifty years, retiring at the end of the academic year 1930, a period equalled only twice in the annals of the University.
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Prof. G. Baldwin Brown. Nature 130, 158–159 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130158a0
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