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David Brown (17 August 1803 in
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...
– 3 July 1897 in Aberdeen) was a son of bookseller who was twice Provost of the city. He was a
Free Church of Scotland minister who served as
Moderator of the General Assembly
The moderator of the General Assembly is the chairperson of a General Assembly, the highest court of a Presbyterian or Reformed church. Kirk sessions and presbyteries may also style the chairperson as moderator. The Oxford Dictionary states t ...
1885/86. He was co-author of the
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary on the whole Bible.
Life
He was born in
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...
in 1803 the fourth son of Alexander Brown, a bookseller, and twice
Lord Provost of Aberdeen, and his wife, Catharine Chalmers. He was educated at
Aberdeen Grammar School
Aberdeen Grammar School is a state secondary school in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is one of thirteen secondary schools run by the Aberdeen City Council educational department.
It is the oldest school in the city and one of the oldest grammar school ...
. He studied Divinity at
Aberdeen University
, mottoeng = The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
, established =
, type = Public research universityAncient university
, endowment = £58.4 million (2021)
, budget ...
graduating in 1821. He was licensed to preach in 1826 then went to
London
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for two years to work with
Edward Irving
Edward Irving (4 August 17927 December 1834) was a Scottish clergyman, generally regarded as the main figure behind the foundation of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Early life
Edward Irving was born at Annan, Annandale the second son of Ga ...
.
He returned to Scotland in 1829 to assist in the ministry at
Dumbarton
Dumbarton (; also sco, Dumbairton; ) is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary. In 2006, it had an estimated population of 19,990.
Dumbarton was the ca ...
. Emerging from a period of doubt which accompanied his studies, he became a probationer in the Church of Scotland and assistant to the celebrated Edward Irving in London, 1830-32. In 1835 he became minister of Ord,
Banffshire in the Presbytery of
Fordyce, Aberdeenshire
Fordyce is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland that is slightly inland from the point where the Burn of Fordyce meets the sea between Cullen and Portsoy. It has existed since at least the 13th century. In 1990, Charles McKean wrote that Fordyce ...
.
In the
Disruption of 1843
The Disruption of 1843, also known as the Great Disruption, was a schism in 1843 in which 450 evangelical ministers broke away from the Church of Scotland to form the Free Church of Scotland.
The main conflict was over whether the Church of S ...
he left the Church of Scotland and became minister of Free St. James, Glasgow, and professor of theology at
Free Church College of the
University of Aberdeen
, mottoeng = The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
, established =
, type = Public research universityAncient university
, endowment = £58.4 million (2021)
, budget ...
. He was co-author of the
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871) with Robert Jamieson, St. Paul's,
Glasgow
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and the Rev. A. R. Fausset, St. Cuthbert's, York, England. He was a director of the
National Bible Society of Scotland
Scottish Bible Society (SBS), founded in 1809 as the Edinburgh Bible Society, amalgamated in 1861 with the Glasgow Bible Society (founded 1812) to form the National Bible Society of Scotland, is a Scottish Christian charity that exists to make t ...
, the
Evangelical Alliance
The Evangelical Alliance (EA) is a national evangelical alliance, member of the World Evangelical Alliance. Founded in 1846, the activities of the Evangelical Alliance aim to promote evangelical Christian beliefs in government, media and socie ...
and the Alliance of the Reformed Churches.
He was succeeded as Moderator by Rev
Alexander Neill Somerville.
He died at home, 104 Crown Street in Aberdeen on 3 July 1897.
Family
He married Catherine (died 30 July 1879, aged 75), third daughter of William Dyce, M.D., Aberdeen, and Margaret Chalmers, on 25 February 1836 at Saint Nicholas's Church, Aberdeen, Scotland. and had issue —
*Margaret Dyce (married 1860 Sir David Stewart of Banchory, Lord Provost of Aberdeen from 1889 to 1894.)
*Alexander, I.C.S., died 1861
*David Dyce, M.D., London, born 30 August 1840
*Catherine Hannah
*Jane Charlotte (married James Fyfe, merchant, Manila)
*Meredith Jemima, Head of Shaftesbury Institute, London, died 8 November 1908.
His younger brother was
Charles John Brown
Charles John Brown (born 13 October 1959) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as an apostolic nuncio since 2012. He is currently the apostolic nuncio to the Philippines. Before entering the diplomatic se ...
.
Works
* ''Christ's Second Coming: Will it be
Premillennial
Premillennialism, in Christian eschatology, is the belief that Jesus will physically return to the Earth (the Second Coming) before the Millennium, a literal thousand-year golden age of peace. Premillennialism is based upon a literal interpretat ...
?'' Edinburgh, 1846.
*Watchman, what of the Sight? (Edinburgh, 1855)
*To Whom shall We Go? (Aberdeen, 1857)
*On United and Universal Prayers (Edinburgh, 1860)
*Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (Glasgow, 1860)
*The Restoration of the Jews: the History, Principles, and Bearings of the Question (Edinburgh, 1861)
*Crushed Hopes crowned in Death (London, 1861) in memory of his son, Alexander Brown, (d. 1860) London, 1861.
[''Crushed Hopes Crowned in Death'' the Last Days of Alexander Brown, Bengal Civil Service, who died at sea, on his way home 2 January 1860]
*The Union Question (Edinburgh, 1867)
*A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
ith Robert Jamieson, D.D., and Andrew Robert Fausset, D.D. vols. v. and vi. (Glasgow, 1868-70)
*Life of the late
John Duncan John Duncan may refer to:
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(1796–1870), LLD. (Edinburgh, 1872)
*The Apocalypse : Its Structure and Primary Predictions (London, 1891).
* Gospels,
Acts of the Apostles, and
Epistle to the Romans in R. Jamieson and A. R. Fausset ''Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments'' 6 vols. Glasgow, 1864–70.
* Commentary on the Epistles to the Corinthians in
Philip Schaff
Philip Schaff (January 1, 1819 – October 20, 1893) was a Swiss-born, German-educated Protestant theologian and ecclesiastical historian, who spent most of his adult life living and teaching in the United States.
Biography
Schaff was born ...
''Popular Commentary on the New Testament'', 1882.
* ''Epistle to the Romans'' Dods and Whyte's Handbooks for Bible Classes, Edinburgh, 1883.
Bibliography
*In Memoriam, 1897
*Guthrie's Chalmers and Trail Ancestry, 25, 85, 144
*Boase's English Biography, iv., 510
*Who was Who? 93.
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1803 births
1897 deaths
Clergy from Aberdeen
19th-century Ministers of the Free Church of Scotland
19th-century Scottish writers
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Academics of the University of Aberdeen
19th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians