Education and Travels
E. Cobham Brewer was the son of Elisabeth née Kitton and John Sherren Brewer, a Norwich schoolmaster associated with the Baptist congregation of St Mary's Chapel in Norwich. His father kept a school in Calvert Street, Norwich until 1824, when he opened a new academy in Eaton on the outskirts of Norwich. E. Cobham Brewer attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in Law in 1836. He was ordained in 1838.
On returning to Norwich to work at his father's school, he compiled his first major work, A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, first published around 1838-41. The book became immensely popular and its sales may have funded the extensive travels in Europe he made later.
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