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. | |