John Brown was a Scottish covenanting martyr. He was born about 1627 and died in 1685. He is said to have fought against the government at Bothwell Bridge in 1679, and to have been on intimate terms with the leaders of the persecuted party. He was shot by Claverhouse and a party of his dragoons at Priestfield or Priesthill in the upland parish of Muirkirk, Ayrshire, where he cultivated a small piece of ground and acted as a carrier.
John Brown was a Scottish divine. He was born in 1722 and died in 1787. He was minister in the Burgher dissenting body at Haddington. By intense application to study he became acquainted with the French, Italian, German, Arabic, Persian, Syriac, and Ethiopic languages, as well as the Greek and Hebrew. His most important works are: The Self-interpreting Bible; Dictionary of the Bible; Explication of the Assembly's Catechism; The Christian Journal; Explication of Scripture Metaphors ; System of Divinity ;
General History of the Church; Particular History of the Churches of England, Scotland, and Ireland; and Harmony of Scripture Prophecies.
John Brown was a Scottish author of the Brunonian system in medicine. He was born in 1735 at Berwickshire 1735 and died in 1788. After studying medicine at the Edinburgh University he took the degree of Doctor in Medicine at St Andrew's, and after practising and teaching in Edinburgh he published his Elements of Medicine (in Latin). He maintained that the majority of diseases were proofs of weakness and not of excessive strength or excitement, and therefore contended that indiscriminate lowering of the system, as by bleeding, was erroneous, and that supporting treatment was required. His system gave rise to much opposition, but his opinions materially influenced the practice of his professional successors. Having fallen into difficulties, he removed to London in 1786.
John Brown was a Scottish divine. He was born in 1784 and died in 1858. The grandson of the Reverend John Brown of Haddington, he was ordained pastor of the Burgher congregation at Biggar in 1806. In 1821 he removed to Edinburgh; and in 1834 became professor of theology in connection with the body to which he belonged, afterwards merged in the United Presbyterian Church. He was author of numerous works chiefly in Biblical criticism, some of which were very popular.
John Brown was an American merchant. He was born in 1736 and died in 1803. A resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he led the party which destroyed the 'Gaspee' in 1772. he was a delegate from Rhode Island to Congress from 1799 until 1801.
John Brown was an American soldier. He was born in 1744 at Massachusetts and died in 1780. He aided in the capture of Ticonderoga and took Fort Chambly in 1775. he served under Montgomery at Quebec and in 1777 captured Ticonderoga together with large supplies.
John Brown was an American Abolitionist. He was born in 1800 at Torrington, Connecticut and died in 1859. He was engaged in the wool business and farming, and developed into an ardent and uncompromising abolitionist. On the outbreak of the Kansas troubles, he settled near Osawatomie in 1855, and took an active part in the desultory warfare in that region, including the 'Pottawatomie Massacre' of 1856. He had many sympathisers in the Northern States and by 1859 his plans to liberate the salves were matured. Having collected a small, well-armed force, he suddenly seized the arsenal at Harpers' Ferry, Virginia on October the 16th 1859. He was immediately blockaded, captured, and tried by a Virginiacourt which sentenced him to death. He was executed at Charlestown, Virginia on December the 2nd 1859. His actions made him a hero of the Northern armies who sang songs about him during the American Civil War.
John Brown was a Scottish physician and essayist. He was born in 1810 at Biggar and died in 1882. The son of John Brown the Scottish divine, he graduated MD in 1833 and began practice as a physician. His leisure hours were devoted to literature, many of his contributions appearing in the North British Review, Good Words, and other periodicals. His collected writings were published under the title of Horse Subsecivae (leisure hours), and embrace papers bearing on medicine, art, poetry, and human life generally. Several of his sketches (such as Rab and his Friends, Our Dogs, Pet Marjory, Jeems the Doorkeeper) on which his fame chiefly rests, have been published separately. Humour, tenderness, and pathos are his chief characteristics. Research John Brown
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