Brown, Archibald – Head died in his car

Archibald Charles Brown BA (1905-1948)

ARCHIBALD Brown was headteacher at the Boys CE School (National) in Castlegate.

Born in Southend-on-Sea, he trained at Reading University and was a graduate in arts of London University.

He commenced his teaching career 1925, becoming first assistant at Richmond Avenue mixed and infants’ school, Southend then at Shoeburyness senior mixed.

In 1941 he was appointed to succeed F Leeson as headmaster of the Grantham Boys’ CE school, from where he went to Lincoln.

He was married in April 1943 at St Wulfram’s Church to Miss Nellie Frances Cant, an old pupil of Kesteven and Grantham Girls School, who has been headmistress of Earlesfield School since its opening in 1938.

A Freemason, Mr Brown was a member of the Granta Lodge and Doric Chapter and of the Thundersley Lodge, Essex.

He served as president of both Grantham branch of the National Association of Head Teachers, and, as well as sometime acting secretary, the Teachers’ Provident Society.

Mr Brown had been secretary of St Wulfram’s church council, for number of years he was a chorister there, prior to which he was for 10 years chorister at Prittlewell. Southend.

He died in his car after taking ill on Harlaxton Road, Grantham, returning from the Sincil Bank secondary modern school, Lincoln, where he had been headteacher for four years.