Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Cornelius Brown (born 5 March 1852 in Lowdham, Nottinghamshire 4 November 1907) was a British journalist and historian. In 1874, 22-year-old Cornelius Brown was appointed editor of the Newark Advertiser in nearby Newark-on-Trent. Over the next 33 years, Cornelius Brown became the author of seven major books, including the massive two-volume History of Newark, which took 15 years to write, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Within months of taking the editor's chair, a young Mr Brown was ready to buy a half share in the newspaper, for which he paid Mr. Whiles Pds. 600.