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Bursary No 4. Despite her significant family responsibilities, she successfully completed her studies at the university, and passed the examination for the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1885. Brown was often at the top of her class in Classics, Mathematics, Natural Science, and Chemistry.
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Reverend Doctor George Brown, was a Methodist missionary and moved to Samoa in 1860. Reverend Brown was also a collector of artifacts, whose collection is exhibited in part at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. Elizabeth, the second of seven children, was born
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The Equity fellowships were introduced by the university in 2009. The Brown
Fellowship is one of these, named after Mary Elizabeth Brown. The aim of the Brown Fellowships is to assist university researchers, both male and female, whose careers have been interrupted by the undertaking of sustained
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Brown, George. George Brown, D.D. Pioneer-Missionary And
Explorer: An Autobiography; A Narrative Of Forty-Eight Years' Residence And Travel In Samoa, New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea, And The Solomon Islands (London: Hodder and Stoughton,
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primary caring duties. The Brown fellowship provides substantial relief from teaching and administrative responsibilities and allows
Fellows to focus on their research while re-establishing or enhancing their academic research careers.
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and lived her early years in Samoa, until she was sent, together with her eldest sister Amy, to her grandparents in
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