Frank Browne (photographer)

Frank Browne (photographer)

Infobox Person
name = Frank Browne


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birth_name = Francis Mary Hegarty Browne
birth_date = 1880
birth_place = Cork, Ireland
death_date = July 7, 1960
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resting_place = Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
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nationality = Irish flagicon|Ireland
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known_for = Titanic photos
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occupation = Photographer, priest
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title = Father
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religion = Jesuit
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parents = Brigid Hegarty and James Browne
relatives = Robert (uncle); five siblings


website = http://www.fatherbrowne.com
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Frank Browne (1880-1960), also known as Father Browne SJ, was an Irish Jesuit priest and photographer.

Family

His family was a prominent one with his grandfather being a Lord Mayor of Cork, and his uncle was a Bishop of Cloyne.

His father, James, was left to raise Frank on his own after his mother, Brigid, passed away from puerperal fever just six days after young Frank was born.

Education

He spent his formative years at Christian Brothers College, Cork, Bower Convent, Belvedere College (where he was a classmate of James Joyce), and Castleknock College, where he graduated in 1897. Later he attended Royal University of Ireland.

From 1911 until 1916, he attended Milltown, County Dublin, while he studied theology as the last part of his Jesuit training.

Military Service

In 1916, shortly before the Easter Rising, Father Browne joined the Irish Guards where he served as their chaplain through the end World War I, until 1919. He was present at the following battles: Battle of the Somme, Locre, Wytschaete and Massine Ridge, Paschendaele, Ypres, Amiens and Arras.

He was wounded five times and was awarded the Military Cross (with bar) and the Belgian Croix de Guerre.

Career

At the age of 17 he toured Europe with his camera and upon returning to Ireland, joined the Jesuit Order. He took over 42,000 photos (including the last pictures of the Titanic) and won many photographic awards during his lifetime.

In 1924, under doctor's orders, Father Browne took his camera to Australia for two years, recording life down under while he recovered from a mustard gas attack endured during the war.

His negatives were found by chance in 1986 in Dublin by Father Edward E. O’Donnell.

References

* [http://www.fatherbrowne.com The Father Browne Collection]
* [http://www.currach.ie/catalogue.php?cat=search&action=7&ISBN=1-85607-916-3 Father Browne's Trains and Railways]


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