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Francis Browne
Irish Jesuit priest and photographer
"Father Browne" redirects here. Not to be confused with Father Brown (disambiguation).
For other people named Francis Browne, see Francis Browne (disambiguation).
Francis Patrick Mary Browne, SJ, MC & Bar (3 January 1880 – 7 July 1960) was a distinguished Irish Jesuit and a prolific photographer.
His best-known photographs are those of the RMS Titanic and its passengers and crew taken before its sinking in 1912.
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He was decorated as a military chaplain during the First World War.
Early life
Francis Browne was born to a wealthy family in 1880 at Buxton House, Cork, Ireland, the youngest of the eight children of James and Brigid (née Hegarty) Browne.[2] His mother was the niece of William Hegarty, Lord Mayor of Cork, and a cousin of Sir Daniel Hegarty, the first Lord Mayor of Cork.
She died of puerperal fever eight days after Francis's birth. After the death of his father in a swimming acciden