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Brown, John (Scottish essayist)

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Brown, John (1810-1882)

Scottish essayist. His essays are simple and unaffected; they include ‘Rab and his Friends’ (1859; about a dog) and ‘Marjorie Fleming’ (1863), and were collected in Horae Subsecivae (1858-82) and John Leech (1877).

Brown was born in Biggar, Lanark. At Edinburgh University he studied medicine. Except for two years in Chatham, Kent, 1831-33 as assistant to a Scottish doctor, he spent all his life in Edinburgh.
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