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Brown, Donald Houghton, son of C. H. Brown, of Weybridge, Surrey; b. May 25, 1895; adm. April 28, 1910 (R); left Easter 1912; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. Dorsetshire Regt. (T. F.) March 7, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917.

BROWN, DOUGLAS PHILIP, second son of Douglas Brown QC, Recorder of King’s Lynn, Arncliffe Hall, Northallerton, Yorks., and Georgina Helen, second dau. of William Mauleverer, Arncliffe Hall; b. 11 May 1864; adm. 24 Jan 1878 (J); left May 1881; a mining engineer; m. 15 Mar 1898 Louisa Thorn Sinet, elder dau. of Lieut. -Col. William Stewart Thorburn, Army Pay Department; d. 27 Sep 1921.

BROWN, GEORGE FRANCIS, son of John Brown, Batcombe, Somerset; b. 12 Nov 1828; adm. 28 Sep 1841 (Scott's); QS 1843; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1847, adm. pens. 13 May 1847, scholar 1848, matr. 1847; ordained deacon 1854 (Guiana), priest 1857 (Bath & Wells); Curate, St. Ives, Cornwall, 1859, subsequently Batcombe, Somerset, and Bridport, Dorset; d. 14 Jun 1872.

Brown, George Leonard, son of George William Brown, of Bournemouth, Hants, by Sarah, daughter of J. Patten; b. July 7, 1892; adm. Sept. 27, 1906 (G); left July 1910; Jesus Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1910; B.A. 1913; M.A. 1918; a textile manufacturer; enlisted in R.A.M.C. Sept. 1914, served in France as Lieut. A. S. C. Dec. 1915 to Nov. 1917, in the M. G. C. July to Nov. 1918, and in the Army of Occupation to April 1919; m. July 29, 1915, Cecilia Lucie Leeds, daughter of Isaac Ebenezer Saunders, of Clayhithe, Cambs.

BROWN, GEORGE; b.; adm. 28 Jun 1813; left Whitsun 1816.

BROWN, HENRY, third son of George Brown, Russell Square, London, merchant; b. 23 Nov 1804; adm. 26 Jun 1815 (Packharness'); left Christmas 1818; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Feb 1822; BA 1826; MA 1830; ordained deacon 1827, priest 1828; Vicar of St. James’s, Curtain Road, Shoreditch, 22 Nov 1839-45; Vicar of Boreham, Essex, 1845-51; Rector of Woolwich, Kent, from 1851; Hon. Canon of Rochester from 1868; m. 2 Nov 1843 Maria, eldest dau. of Right Rev. Charles James Blomfield DD, Bishop of London; d. 2 May 1875.

BROWN, HENRY, son of Henry Brown, Salisbury, Wilts.; b.; adm. 22 Jan 1766; KS 1767; left 1769.

BROWN, JAMES, second son of James Brown MD, Kelso, Roxburghshire, and Bridgetown, Barbados, and Mary, dau. of James Bowden, Edinburgh; b. 23 May 1709; adm. Feb 1717/8; went with his father to Constantinople in 1722, and remained in the East for three years; projected a Trade Directory of London, afterwards carried out by Henry Kent; attempted to establish a trade with Persia via Russia; set up and superintended a factory at Reshd, Persia, 1742-6; returned to Stoke Newington 1746; a facile linguist; compiled a Persian dictionary and grammar, never published, and translated two orations of Isocrates, published anonymously; m. 9 Nov 1749 Sarah, eldest dau. of Thomas Miller, Spitalfields, Middlesex; d. 30 Nov 1788. DNB.

BROWN, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1722; left 1724.