| 词条 | Thomas Brown (minister) |
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Very Rev Dr Thomas Brown DD FRSE (1811–1893) was a Scottish minister in the Free Church of Scotland who rose to its highest rank, Moderator of the General Assembly in 1890. He was a noted geologist and botanist. He wrote prolifically on the history of the Disruption of 1843. LifeHe was born on 23 April 1811 in the manse at Langton, Berwickshire in south-east Scotland, the son of the Rev Dr John Brown DD, minister of that parish. He trained in theology at Edinburgh University and began working as a minister in 1837 at Kinneff in Aberdeenshire. He left the Church of Scotland at the point of the Disruption of 1843. He spent some years without a ministry before being placed in the relatively prestigious Dean Free Church on Belford Road in north-west Edinburgh in 1849. He remained in the Free Church of Scotland for the rest of his life, serving as its Moderator for 1890/91 and the age of 79[1] in succession to Rev John Laird.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1861. His address was then listed as 16 Carlton Street in Stockbridge, Edinburgh.[3] Edinburgh University honoured him with a Doctor of Divinity in 1880. He died at home, 16 Carlton Street[4] in Edinburgh on 4 April 1893.[5] FamilyHe married Mary Ann Wood, sister of physician Alexander Wood, in 1848. Their children included the physician and neurologist, John James Graham Brown (1853–1925). PublicationsSee[6][7][5]
References1. ^{{cite web| url=https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|title=Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1783 – 2002|last1=|first1=|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh |date=July 2006 |accessdate=25 January 2017}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Thomas}}2. ^ewings Annals of the Free Church 3. ^{{cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/earth-and-environmental-science-transactions-of-royal-society-of-edinburgh/article/div-classtitlelist-of-the-ordinary-fellows-of-the-societydiv/41F99EC875ECF0BF17825A2C4C56DBC5|title=List of the Ordinary Fellows of the Society|date=1 January 1870|publisher=|volume=26|issue=1|pages=xi–xiii|accessdate=26 January 2017|via=Cambridge Core|doi=10.1017/S008045680002648X}} 4. ^Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1893 5. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=thomas%20brown%201811-1893&source=bl&ots=9Gp0iKdgR3&sig=zjJZoHyX_pRWmOCYqoA4vtW4lps&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2l1kVZWFK8_W7Qb8q4LYAg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=thomas%20brown%201811-1893&f=false|title=Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers|first=Ray|last=Desmond|date=25 February 1994|publisher=CRC Press|accessdate=26 January 2017|via=Google Books}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=atitle&key=Brown,%20Thomas,%201811-1893&c=x|title=Browse authors with titles: Brown, Thomas, 1811-1893 - The Online Books Page|publisher=|accessdate=26 January 2017}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Brown,%20Thomas,%201811-1893|title=Brown, Thomas, 1811-1893 - The Online Books Page|publisher=|accessdate=26 January 2017}} 9 : 1811 births|1893 deaths|People associated with Edinburgh|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland|Scottish Calvinist and Reformed theologians|19th-century Scottish writers|19th-century Presbyterian ministers|19th-century Scottish people |
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