Background
Bromby was born in Hull, England, the son of the Reverend John Healey Bromby and his wife Jane, née Amis.
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Education
Bromby was educated at Hull Grammar School, Uppingham. At 18 he entered Street John"s College, Cambridge, where he graduated ninth wrangler and third in the second class of the Classics tripos in 1832.
Career
He was elected a fellow of Street John"s College. Bromby was ordained deacon in 1834 and priest in 1836. He was appointed second master at Bristol College in 1836 and then for some years conducted a private school at Clifton.
From 1847 to 1854 he was Principal of Elizabeth College, Guernsey, was university preacher at Cambridge in 1850, obtaining the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and after 1854 was curate for two or three years to his father at Hull.
The school opened on 7 April 1858 with 86 students and the number of boys soon began to grow rapidly. There were 195 at the school in 1861 and it prospered for many years.
About 1871 the number of students at the Grammar school began to fall off, partly because of the foundation of other secondary schools, and in 1874, feeling that it might be for the benefit of the school to have a younger headmaster, Bromby resigned and was succeeded by Edward Ellis Morris. He was appointed incumbent of Street Paul"s, Melbourne, in 1877 a position he held until his death.
On the completion of his seventy-fifth year in 1884 he was presented with an address and £1000.
He died at his parsonage at East Melbourne and was buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery. He was the author of a volume of Sermons and the Earlier Chapters of Genesis, and several of his lectures and sermons were published as pamphlets. Bromby as a headmaster encouraged games and relied more on a good moral tone than strict discipline.
Though apparently somewhat reserved and austere, he was really thoroughly kindly in his disposition, and was a good conversationalist, with much appreciation of wit and humour.
Membership
He was appointed a member of a Royal Commission to report on the working of the educational system on 4 September 1866. He was for many years a member of the council of the University of Melbourne, and was its first Warden of the Senate.
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