BROUN, Sir William, 9 Baronet. b. July 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; admitted procurator 1829; dean of Faculty of procurators for county of Dumfries; succeeded 10 Dec. 1858. d. 7 Irving st. Dumfries 10 June 1882.
BROWELL, Rev. William Robert. Educ. at Pemb. coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, fellow and tutor of his college; public examiner 1834; R. of Beaumont-cum-Mose Essex 1839 to death; translated Count Carnot’s Reflexions on the metaphysical principles of the infinitesimal analysis 1832; edited Carwithen’s History of the Church of England 1849. d. Beaumont rectory 15 Aug. 1867.
BROWN, Rev. Andrew Morton. b. parish of Loudown, Ayrshire 12 March 1812; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; Congregational minister at Overton, Hants.; minister at Poole 1837–43; minister of Highbury chapel Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1843 to death; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1854; author of The leader of the Lollards, his times and trials 1848; Salvation and the way to secure it, 3 ed. 1851; Evenings with the prophets, a series of memoirs and meditations 1854; Peden the prophet a tale of the covenanters founded on fact 1859. d. Bridport 17 July 1879. Waddington’s Congregational history v, 596–8 (1880); Congregational year book (1880) 310–12.
BROWN, Charles Philip (son of Rev. David Brown 1763–1812, provost of Calcutta College). b. Calcutta 1798; ed. at Haileybury college; entered Madras civil service 1817; Persian translator to Madras government 1838; postmaster general and Telugu translator 1846–55; presented his fine collection of manuscripts including over 2000 Sanskrit and Telugu works to Madras Literary Society 1845; one of the foremost South Indian scholars; author of Prosody of the Telugu and Sanskrit languages 1826; Dictionaries of Telugu-English and English-Telugu 2 vols. Madras 1852; Grammar of the Telugu language 1840, 2 ed. 1857, and many other works some of which were translated into Tamil, Canarese and Hindustani. d. 22 Kildare gardens, Paddington, London 12 Dec. 1884. Some account of the literary life of C. P. B. privately printed 1866.
BROWN, Eleanor (dau. of Mr. Fairlam of city of London, jeweller). b. near Regent’s Park London 22 March 1829; landscape painter; exhibited 1 picture at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1857–72; author of a fairy tale entitled Muriel’s Dreamland 1871. (m. 22 March 1849 J. W. Brown of London, estate agent). d. 17 Feb. 1878. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists ii, 177–83 (1876).
BROWN, George. b. Stoughton, Sussex 27 April 1783; a tailor at Emsworth, Hants.; moved to Brighton 1825; lessee of Royal Brighton Cricket ground 1831 to about 1840; kept a lodging house at 71 Middle st. Brighton to Sep. 1856; played his first cricket match at Lords 30 July 1818; the fastest bowler who ever played in great cricket matches; threw a cricket ball 137 yards on Walderton Common about 1819, the longest throw on record; one of the Sussex eleven till about 1838. d. Sompting, Sussex 25 June 1857.
BROWN, Sir George (3 son of George Brown, provost of Elgin). b. Linkwood near Elgin 3 July 1790; ensign 43 Foot 23 Jany. 1806; lieut. col. Rifle brigade 5 Feb. 1824 to 23 Nov. 1841; deputy adjutant general 23 Nov. 1841; adjutant general 8 April 1850 to 12 Dec. 1853; colonel 77 Foot 11 April 1851 to 22 Dec. 1854; commanded Light division during Crimean war 1854–55, invalided home 28 June 1855; colonel commandant Rifle brigade 18 Jany. 1855, colonel in chief 18 April 1863 to death; general 7 Sep. 1855; commander of the forces in Ireland 1 April 1860 to April 1865; P.C. Ireland 1860; colonel 32 Foot 1 April 1863 to death; K.H. 1831, C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Linkwood 27 Aug. 1865. E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i, 203, 384 (1857), portrait; G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 58–61; Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea, 6 ed. vols. 2–7 (1877–83).
BROWN, George (son of Peter Brown 1784–1863). b. Edinburgh 29 Nov. 1818; went to New York 1838 and to Toronto 1843; founded the Daily Globe at Toronto 1844 and the Canada Farmer 1864; member of legislative assembly of Canada for county Kent Dec. 1851, for Lambton 1854, for city of Toronto 1857, and for South Oxford March 1863 to the Union 27 May 1867; formed a ministry in Aug. 1858 which only lasted 2 days; member of the Senate 16 Dec. 1873 to death; joint plenipotentiary with Sir E. Thornton at Washington to arrange a commercial treaty with United States 1874; gazetted K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879 but declined the honour. d. Toronto 9 May 1880 having been shot by a discharged employé 25 March 1880. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians (1862) 769–73; Dominion annual register (1879) 210, 352, (1880) 393–5; I.L.N. xlv, 496 (1864), portrait.
BROWN, George Granville (son of Charles Ferdinand D’Artois Duc de Berri 1778–1820 by his first wife Amy dau. of Rev. Joseph Brown 1784–1876, V. of All Saints church Maidstone, Kent). b. London 1805; brought up at Ouchy near Lausanne; served in army of King of Naples; naturalised in France about 1843; lived at Mantes-sur-Seine near Paris about 1843 to death. d. Mantes 5 July 1882. Illust. Lon. News lxxxi, 62 (1882).
BROWN, Right Rev. George Hilary (son of Wm. Brown of Clifton in the Fylde, Lancs.) b. 13 Jany. 1786; entered St. Cuthbert’s college Ushaw 25 Sep. 1799, left it 8 April 1819; ordained deacon 1808, priest 1810; in charge of mission at Lancaster 1819–40; Vicar Apostolic of Lancashire district 1840; consecrated Bishop of Bugia in partibus, at Liverpool 24 Aug. 1840; translated to Tloa in partibus 1842; assistant at Pontifical throne 1843; bishop of Liverpool 29 Sep. 1850 to death; author of A supplement to the Diurnal adapted to the English mission 1833. d. Catherine st. Liverpool 25 Jany. 1856.