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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.