It looks like you are viewing this on a mobile device. Would you like to use the mobile version? No thanks.
It looks like your device can support the full version of the site. Would you like to view that instead? No thanks.
Email to a friend Tweet This Send to Facebook Share on Google+
  Login
Norman Brown
August 26, 1922 - April 19, 2014
Return to the Memorial Getting Started Administration Inbox  
Return to Getting Started  
Return to the Memorial Help Extend the Memorial Order a Keepsake Book  
Obituary Eulogy Guestbook Biography Photos Media Life Stories Family Tree Contribute
<div itemprop="description">BROWN, Professor Norman John Peppin - BPhil (Oxon), MA, BA, FRCCO(Hon.), was born in Dover, England, on August 26, 1922, and passed away peacefully in Kingston, Ontario, on April 19, 2014. He is survived by his second wife, Jennifer Roche-Brown, children Paul Brown (Elwyn), Hilary Brown, and Clare Mitchell (Bill), grandchildren Lindsay Milner (Eric), Julian Brown (Kirsten), Carolyn Goodridge (Neil), Danielle Brown, Benjamin Brendle, James Robert Brendle, Jeff Mitchell, John Mitchell, and William Mitchell, great-grandchildren Cordelia Milner, Ambrose Milner, Magdalen Milner, Etheldreda Milner, and Sterling Brown, brother Philip Brown, nieces Ursula Hallin, Philippa Gee, Carole Fish, Christina Martinez, and Antonia Brown, brother-in-law Eric Plumpton, niece and nephews Helen Kremer, Tim Plumpton, and Richard Plumpton, and cousin Barbara Lamb. He was predeceased by his first wife and the mother of his children, Dr. Dorothy Catherine Brown, in 1993. He was educated at Westminster School, London, next to the Abbey, which was his school chapel where he was school organist. In 1941, he was named Captain of the King's Scholars of Westminster School, a tradition originating with Elizabeth I. He participated in the Coronation of 1937 as a student of Westminster, and was evacuated to Lancing, Exeter, and Whitbourne during the war. In the latter part of the war, he was a member of the Friends' Ambulance Unit. In the late '40s, he experienced a conversion from the Church of England to Roman Catholicism, influenced by Cardinal Newman and the Oxford Movement. He was a lifelong proponent of Christian unity. He graduated with a BPhil from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1948, with a thesis on Aristotle, and was the founding member of the Philosophy Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1952. While in St. John's, he was involved in music at St. Patrick's School and the Basilica and in public broadcasting at CBC Radio. In 1965, he was appointed at Queen's University where he taught Logic and Classical and Medieval Philosophy in the Philosophy Department until retirement in 1987. Professor Brown was Chair of Queen's Faculty Board in the 1970s; Organist and Choir Director at St. Mary's Cathedral, Kingston, from 1975 to 2008; National President of the Royal Canadian College of Organists from 1992 to 1994 and Honorary President from March 2010 onwards; author of For God and the People: A Defense of Traditional Church Music; and Treasurer of the Canadian Philosophical Association. The family will receive friends at the ROBERT J. REID AND SONS FUNERAL HOME , 309 Johnson Street (at Barrie Street), on Thursday, April 24, 5-8 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Mary's Cathedral, 279 Johnson Street, on Friday, April 25, at 10 a.m. Reception following at Robert J. Reid and Sons. Rite of Committal with prayers at 1 p.m. at St. Mary's Cemetery, 718 Division Street. The giving of flowers is not discouraged, but those who prefer to make a donation may do so to the Royal Canadian College of Organists.</div>