This Bronze statue of Thomas Edward Brown is on the corner of Circular Road and Prospect Hill in Douglas.
T.E. Brown was described by the Hall Caine* thus:
"the greatest man, the finest brain, the noblest heart, the largest nature that we can yet call Manx."
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* Hall Caine was Sir Henry Hall Caine who was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet and critic of the late nineteeth and ealry twentieth century.
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"Thomas Edward Brown has long been established
as the Manx National Poet whose narrative poems
in the Manx dialect act as a sort of mirror to the
Manx, showing them what they were and who they
are, illustrating their use of language, their sense of
humour, their livelihoods and loves, their hopes
and fears. Few can read lines from any of Brown’s
Fo’c’s’le Yarns without realising that Brown
understands the Manx people from the inside out
and is urging them to achieve their destiny as a
nation."
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The above referenced paper gives much more detail about T.E. Brown's literary work and his life.
The dedication plaque attached to the statue's plinth is inscribed as follows:
"T.E. BROWN
Manx Poet and Scholar
3rd May 1830 29th October 1897"