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Brown John DD

Brown, John, D.D., grandson of the preceding, was born in 1784 at Whitburn, Linlithgowshire. After studying at the University of Edinburgh he became a schoolmaster, studying theology in the summer vacation. In 1806 he was ordained pastor of the Burgher congregation at Biggar, receiving a charge in Edinburgh in 1822. In 1834 he became professor of theology in the college of his denomination. He wrote numerous religious works which attained a wide popularity, and on account of his utterances in the Atonement controversy of 1840-45 a formal charge of heresy was preferred against him. He died in 1858.