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<p> an English Congregational minister, was born at Denny, Stirling, April 24, 1811. He was early converted, and began to labor in the [[Christian]] cause. In 1833 he entered [[Blackburn]] Academy, and in 1837 he became the pastor of the churches of Wirksworth and Middleton, in Derbyshire, where he remained nineteen years. In 1857, after a brief period of rest, he accepted the pastorate of the churches of Hambledon and Skirment, near Henley-on- Thames, where he continued for eleven years. In 1868 symptoms of failing health led him to remove into Shropshire, and after two years, the entire failure of his health induced him to retire to Matlock, where he died, March 22, 1880. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1881, page 359. </p>
<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>


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<ref name="term_27958"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/brown,+john+(10) John Brown from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_69500"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/brown,+john,+m.d. 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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