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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_27999" /> ==
 
<p> an [[English]] minister of the [[Society]] of Friends, was born at Laleham, Middlesex, [[June]] 1, 1639. [[He]] was among the first who, in his native county, embraced the doctrines and followed the practices of the Friends. He became a member of the monthly meeting of Kingston-upon-Thames, where the meeting-house was built, and continued a member thereof forty- eight years. After he became a minister he "was very zealous, not fearing the trials and persecutions that came upon him." He was in prison at the time of the great fire in [[London]] in 1666, and was obliged to carry his bed out on his back when the prison was burned. He remained steadfast in the truth to the last, and died at the house of his son-in-law, in Blackman street, Southwark, [[May]] 6,1723. [[See]] [[Piety]] Prormoted, 2:362. (J.C.S.) </p>
John Brown <ref name="term_69500" />
       
<p> Great-grandson of the preceding, born at Biggar, educated in [[Edinburgh]] High School and at Edinburgh University, was a pupil of James Syme, the eminent surgeon, and commenced quiet practice in Edinburgh; author of "Horæ Subsecivæ," "Rab and his Friends," "Pet Marjorie," "John Leech," and other works; was a fine and finely-cultured man, much beloved by all who knew him, and by none more than by John Ruskin, who says of him, he was "the best and truest friend of all my life.... Nothing can tell the loss to me in his death, nor the grief to how many greater souls than mine that had been possessed in patience through his love" (1810-1882). </p>
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_69449" /> ==
 
<p> [[Of]] Haddington, a self-educated [[Scotch]] divine, born at Carpow, near Abernethy, Perthshire, son of a poor weaver, left an orphan at 11, became a minister of a [[Dissenting]] church in Haddington; a man of considerable learning, and deep piety; author of "Dictionary of the Bible," and "Self-interpreting Bible" (1722-1787). </p>
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<ref name="term_69500"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/brown,+john,+m.d. John Brown from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
<ref name="term_27999"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/brown,+john+(2) John Brown from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
       
<ref name="term_69449"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/brown,+john+(2) John Brown from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
       
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Latest revision as of 17:58, 15 October 2021

John Brown [1]

Great-grandson of the preceding, born at Biggar, educated in Edinburgh High School and at Edinburgh University, was a pupil of James Syme, the eminent surgeon, and commenced quiet practice in Edinburgh; author of "Horæ Subsecivæ," "Rab and his Friends," "Pet Marjorie," "John Leech," and other works; was a fine and finely-cultured man, much beloved by all who knew him, and by none more than by John Ruskin, who says of him, he was "the best and truest friend of all my life.... Nothing can tell the loss to me in his death, nor the grief to how many greater souls than mine that had been possessed in patience through his love" (1810-1882).

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  1. ↑ John Brown from The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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