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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.

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

BROWN, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 10) Oct 1732; left 1739.

BROWN, JARVIS; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1716/7; in under school list 1721.

Brown, John Russell Ray, son of William Ray Brown, of Malvern, Wares, by Effie, daughter of Edward Long Fox, of Clifton; b. March 26, 1895; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (R); left July 1912; served in France Aug. 1915 - Aug. 1917 and on the N. W. Frontier 1925; mentioned in despatches; m. Dec. 3, 1922, Margaret Letitia, daughter of Thomas Toler, of Saltersford Hall, Cheshire.

Brown, John Stephen, son of Cecil Norman Brown, member of Lloyd's, of Lyminster House, Sussex, and Violet Esther, d. of Charles Henry Cooper, haberdasher, of Finchley; b. 26 May 1912; adm. Jan. 1926 (G); left July 1931; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1931, BA 1934, MA 1938; asst master Edinburgh Academy 1934-40; Roy. Scots Regt 1941-5 (Capt.); War Office Selection Boards 1942-5; asst master Emanuel Sch. 1946-52; HM Bexhill-on-Sea County GS 1952- 68; m. 1st 1 June 1935 Nesta, d. of Sir Clement Jones CB, shipowner, of Crick, Rugby; 2nd 23 Nov. 1950 Diana Mary, widow of John Alderson (qv); d. 1 Aug. 1968.

BROWN, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 10) Oct 1722; in school list 1729.

BROWN, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 10) Mar 1737/8; left 1742.

BROWN, JOHN; b.; adm. 8 Jul 1772.

BROWN, JOHN; b.; adm. 25 Feb 1778; BB; left Whitsun 1786.