Newport and went to reside at Shrewsbury. On 8 December 1869, he took part in the inauguration of the Œcumenical Council of the Vatican. On 17 April 1870, he was named by Pope Pius IX one of the bishops assistant at the pontifical throne. Some weeks before the declaration of the dogma of papal infallibility, on 18 July 1870, Brown was released from his attendance upon it on the score of ill-health, and received permission to return homewards. On 27 July 1876, the silver jubilee of his episcopate was celebrated in the Shrewsbury Cathedral, memorial gifts to the value of £1,600 being presented to him on the occasion. His health breaking down three years afterwards he obtained the assistance of an auxiliary, Edmund Knight, who was consecrated on 25 July 1879. Brown then went to live at St. Mary's Grange, a sequestered spot near Shrewsbury, then recently purchased by him as the site of his proposed seminary. His active episcopal work had thenceforth to be abandoned. But to the close of his life he sedulously watched over the general administration of his diocese. Death came to him at last very gently, in his seventieth year, on 14 October 1881, at St. Mary's Grange. He had been present at four provincial councils (those of 1852, 1855, 1859, and 1873) held during the time of his episcopate. He presided at his own first diocesan synod in December 1853, at St. Alban's, Macclesfield. He died in office at Grange Bank Farm, Shrewsbury, on 14 October 1881, aged 69 and his body taken to Wales where he was buried at Pantasaph Friary, Flintshire. References Attribution 1812 births 1881 deaths 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in England People from Wolverhampton