Thomas Brown (minister of St John's, Glasgow) explained

Honorific Prefix:The Reverend
Thomas Brown
Birth Date:9 August 1776
Birth Place:Closeburn, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Death Date:23 January 1847
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Term Start1:26 March 1807
Term End1:11 May 1826
Office2:Minister of St John's Parish Church, Glasgow
Term Start2:11 May 1826
Term End2:19 May 1843
Office3:Minister of St John's Free Church, Glasgow
Term Start3:1843
Term End3:4 November 1846
Office4:Moderator of the Free Church General Assembly
Term Start4:17 October 1843
Term End4:May 1844

Thomas Brown (9 August 1776 – 23 January 1847) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister who served in St John's church in Glasgow. After many years in the Church of Scotland ministry he walked out during the schism known as The Disruption and joined the Free Church of Scotland. He was elected the second-ever moderator of the Free Church in October 1843.

Life

Thomas Brown, was a minister of St. John's, Glasgow and the 2nd moderator of the Free Church. He was born in the parish of Closeburn, Dumfriesshire, on the 9 August 1776.

He received the first part of his education at Wallace-Hall, in the Parish of Closeburn, under the teacher Alex. Mundell; and was for some time engaged in the tuition of the younger boys of that seminary, along with Dr. Robert Mundell, the son of Mr. Mundell. He then entered as tutor into the family of Major Hoggan of Waterside, Dumfries-shire; and, while acting in that capacity, prosecuted his studies in the University of Glasgow during two winter-sessions. The rest of his University education he received at Edinburgh. During a small portion of the time of his attendance at the Divinity Hall, he acted as Usher in an academy at Inveresk, after which he entered as tutor into the family of Dr. Hunter, Professor of Divinity, and Minister of the Tron Church, Edinburgh, where he continued for five or six years.

Mr. Brown passed his trials for licence before the Presbytery of Edinburgh, and was licensed to preach the gospel on the 29 of August, 1804. He received the presentation to the Parish of Tongland, near Kirkcudbright, in September 1806, and was ordained Minister of that Parish on 26 March 1807.

During his incumbency at Tongland, he was offered four appointments to other parishes or congregations. His attachment tohis flock there was so strong as to induce him to decline them all; until a vacancy having occurred in the parish of St. John's, Glasgow, he was convinced that it was his duty to accept. He was accordingly admitted minister of that church and parish in the beginning of the summer of 1826, and continued till his death, the pastor of St. John's congregation.

The most remarkable occurrence in his life during the last of the periods to which we have now referred, was the resignation of his benefice as a minister of the Establishment - along with the other ministers who, with the flocks adhering to them, constituțed the Free Church of Scotland. On the question, the agitation of which ultimately led to the Disruption, he was single-minded. He served as moderator of the Free Church General Assembly in October 1843.

Dr. Brown was married on the 9 November 1808, to Miss Eliza Duncan, by whom he had one daughter and a son, the last of whom died in infancy. His daughter married the Alexander Niven, minister of Balfron, and has a family of three sons and a daughter. He died on the 23 January 1847.

Family

He married 9 November 1808, Eliza (born 1782, died 27 May 1852), daughter of John Duncan, minister of Peter Street Presbyterian Church, Golden Square, London, and had issue —

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