Hugh Stowell Brown

Hugh Stowell Brown was a Manx Christian minister and renowned preacher.

He was born at Douglas, Isle of Man, onAugust 1823, was second son of Robert Brown, and his wife Dorothy . Thomas Edward Brown was his younger brother. The father, Robert Brown , was at one time master of the grammar school in Douglas, and in 1817 became chaplain of St. Matthews chapel in that town. An evangelical of extreme views, he never read the Athanasian Creed, and took no notice of Ash Wednesday or Lent. In 1832, he became curate of Kirk Braddan, succeeding as vicar onApril 1836. He learned Manx in order to preach in it, and supported a family of nine on less than 200 a year. His boys spent the summers in collecting his tithes of hay and corn, intermittently walking five miles to Douglas grammar school, but Hughs early education consisted chiefly in reading four or five hours daily to his father, who became almost blind. Robert Brown was found dead by the roadside onNovember 1846, and buried next day at Kirk Braddan. He wrote twentytwo Sermons on various Subjects, Wel

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