Brown, David (5)

an English Congregational minister, was born in Forfar, Scotland, March 27, 1804. He was apprenticed to his father as a linen-weaver, but was more fond of books than the loom. He taught two years at King's Muir, and then several years in Forfar. He at first joined the Established Church, but in 1837 connected himself with the Congregational Church. Soon after this he studied at the universities of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, with a view to the ministry, and then for several years supplied vacant churches and itinerated in various parts of the country. In 1846 he was ordained over the Church at Harray, Orkney, where he labored eight years, and then became pastor at Cullen, where he died, April 1862. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1863, page 212.