Dates

• Existence: 1823 - 1907

Biography

William Haig-Brown (1823-1907), Headmaster of Charterhouse, was born at Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, on 3 December 1823. In his tenth year he received a presentation to Christ's Hospital, where he remained, first in the junior school at Hertford, and later on in London, until 1842. He entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1846 as eighth junior optime in the mathematical and second in the first class in the classical tripos. He was briefly a schoolmaster at Edinburgh and Richmond, Yorkshire, publishing school editions of Sophocles (1847, 1848), before his election as a fellow of his college in October 1848 (MA 1849). He took holy orders (deacon 1852 and priest 1853), and was a college tutor until 1857, when his marriage to Annie Marion, eldest daughter of the Revd E. E. Rowsell, obliged him to vacate his fellowship. He became headmaster of Kensington proprietary school, a post he held until 1863, when he was appointed to the headmastership of Charterhouse, in spite of the long-established tradition that the schoolmaster (such was then his title) should have been educated at the school. The following year Haig Brown proceeded LLD at Cambridge. He died at the master's lodge at the hospital on 11 January 1907, and was buried in the chapel at Charterhouse School.

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