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Very Rev Thomas Brown DD FRSE (1811 -1893) was a Scottish minister in the Free Church of Scotland who rose to its highest rank, Moderator of the General Assembly in 1890. He was a noted geologist and botanist. He wrote prolifically on the history of the Disruption of 1843. ==Life== He was born on 23 April 1811 in the manse at Langton, Berwickshire in south-east Scotland, the son of the Rev John Brown, minister of that parish. He trained in theology at Edinburgh University and began working as a minister in 1837 at Kineff in Aberdeenshire. He left the Church of Scotland at the point of the Disruption of 1843. He spent some years without a ministry before being placed in the relatively prestigious Dean Free Church in north-west Edinburgh in 1849. He remained in the Free Church of Scotland for the rest of his life, serving as its Moderator in 1890 and the age of 79.〔http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1861. His address was then listed as 16 Carlton Street in Stockbridge, Edinburgh.〔http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8367042〕 Edinburgh University honoured him with a Doctor of Divinity in 1880. He died in Edinburgh on the 4 April 1893.〔https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=thomas+brown+1811-1893&source=bl&ots=9Gp0iKdgR3&sig=zjJZoHyX_pRWmOCYqoA4vtW4lps&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2l1kVZWFK8_W7Qb8q4LYAg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=thomas%20brown%201811-1893&f=false〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Brown (minister)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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