John Brown

(1715-1766)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Brown, John, 1715-1766 NRA: Brown John (1715-1766) Chaplain to Bishop of Carlisle DNB: Brown, John (1715–1766), author and moralist LBT ID: JoBrown1766 VIAF ID: 19712237 LOC ID: n50040068	B/BAP: 1715-11-05 DIED: 1766-09-23
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Poet, playwright, and moralist educated at St John's College, Cambridge; he attracted attention with An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1757) but suffered from madness and died a suicide.
REFERENCES TO John Brown: William Godwin to John Arnot, 23 November 1798 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 4 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XVIII. 1789 Found 1: ¶ n2 Ch. XXVI. 1800-1803 Found 1: ¶ n1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. XI. 1798