High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Peter Robert Lamont Brown (born 1935) is a historian and professor of history. Peter Brown was born in Dublin, Ireland, to an Anglo-Irish Protestant family. He was educated at Aravon School, the oldest preparatory school in Ireland and one of its most distinguished, and then at Shrewsbury School in Shropshire, one of the great "public" schools in England. From 1953 to 1956, he read Modern History at New College, Oxford. His potential was recognized by the award of the Harmsworth Senior Scholarship at Merton College, Oxford, and a seven-year Prize Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford.