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<p> an English Weslevan minister, was born in Helmsley Black-moor, Yorkshire, in 1782. He was converted in his sixteenth year, and, three years after, he left the farm for the ministry. He preached at Berwick-upon- Tweed, Howden (1803), Liverpool, Manchester, and Wakefield. While attending the [[Conference]] at [[Sheffield]] (1811), he was seized with catarrhal fever; this was aggravated by his journey, first to his native place, and then to London, to which city he was appointed by the Conference, so that he died soon after his arrival, September 17, 1811. "In mental vigor, moral worth, studious diligence, ministerial ability and spiritual usefulness, he excelled most of his contemporaries." See Minutes of the British Conference, 1812; Wesl. Meth. Magazine, 1819, page 241. </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_28001"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/brown,+john+(8) 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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