Titles by John Brown

1715 – 1766

John Brown studied at Cambridge and took orders shortly thereafter. He defended the Whig cause both in the battle of Carlisle in 1745 and in published sermons, was made chaplain to the dean of York in 1747, and wrote an essay in 1751 on Shaftesbury’s Characteristics.

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