Brown, George (5)
Brown, George (1)
a Scottish prelate, was chancellor of Aberdeen, and rector of Tinningham in East Lothian, and was consecrated bishop of Dunkeld in 1484. He was witness to the charter of regality granted to the abbey of Paisley by king James IV, August 19, 1488. He died January 12, 1515. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, page 91.
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Brown, George (2)
an Irish Wesleyan minister, was born in 1750. He was converted at the age of twenty-two, entered the travelling connection in 1776, preached thirty years, and died in 1822. He lived as he preached. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1822.
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Brown, George (3)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Halifax County, Virginia, about 1771. He experienced conversion. in his twenty-first year, and, after discharging the duties of a local preacher for twelve years, was in 1818 admitted into the Kentucky Conference, wherein he served until his death, Dec. 12, 1823. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1825, page 474; Meth. Magazine, 8:166.
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Brown, George (4)
an English Baptist minister, was born in 1777. He seems to have commenced his ministry in Sabden, Lancashire, where he remained two years, and then removed to Kington, in Herefordshire, where he was pastor eight years. About 1822 he was invited to take charge of the Church in South Shields, Durham. Here he remained during the rest of his life. He is said to have experienced heavy trials, through all of which the Lord carried him. He died August 26, 1842. See (Lond.) Baptist Hand-book, 1843, page 21. (J.C.S.)
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Brown, George (5)
a Methodist Protestant minister, was born in West Pennsylvania, January 29, 1792. He was converted in 1813, began the Methodist Episcopal itinerant life in 1815, and after one year under the presiding elder, entered the Baltimore Conference, which then included West Pennsylvania. In 1825 he became a member of the Pittsburgh Conference, and so continued, filling some of its principal stations, and serving four years as presiding elder, until 1829, when he took a prominent part in the organization of the Methodist Protestant Church, and commenced his first pastorate in that body in the same year. In 1831 Mr. Brown was elected president of his Conference, and served in this relation three years. In 1838 he was placed in charge of the Ohio Circuit, in 1839 elected president of his Conference, in 1840 stationed at Pittsburgh, in 1842 again elected president in 1845 appointed Conference missionary, in 1846 again president, and thus continued to vibrate between the presidency and pastoral office until 1860, when he was elected editor of the Western Methodist Protestant at Springfield, Ohio, in which office he served two years, producing many useful theological and ecclesiastical articles. He then took a superannuated relation at his home in Springfield, Where he died, October 25, 1871. Mr. Brown was a prodigious worker, a finely educated man, and a devoted Christian. After retiring from the editorial service, he published his Recollections of Itinerant Life (8vo, 456 pages), and an autobiography of great interest, full of incident, and details of travel, Gospel labors, and experiences. See Bassett, Hist. of the Meth. Prot. Church, page 369.