1820–1884

Introduction

Born: Au­gust 19, 1820, King’s Bench Walk, In­ner Tem­ple, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Died: June 23, 1884, Coombe House (since de­mol­ished), Kings­ton Hill, Sur­rey, Eng­land.

Buried: West Nor­wood Ce­me­te­ry, Lam­beth, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Biography

Brown was the first son of James Bald­win Brown the el­der (1785–1843), a bar­ris­ter and wri­ter, and brother-in-law of sculpt­or Hen­ry Stor­month Leif­child (1823–1884).

In 1839, he was one of the first gra­du­ates of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don. He was a min­is­ter in Der­by (1843); at Clay­lands Chapel, Clap­ham Road (1846), Lon­don; and at Brix­ton In­de­pen­dent Cha­pel (lat­er con­vert­ed to an Ang­li­can church), Brix­ton Road, Lond­on, from 1870 un­til his death.

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Sources

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If you know where to get a good pho­to of Brown (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),