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BROWN. BROWN. 

entered the Navy 20 July, 1807; passed his examination in 1814; obtained his commission 10 Jan. 1825; was appointed to the Coast Guard 25 April, 1826; removed to the command of the Revenue-cruizer 25 Jan. 1833; returned to the Coast Guard 26 March, 1836; from 15 June, 1840, until June, 1845, again had charge of a Revenue-vessel, the ; and since the latter date has been re-employed in the Coast Guard.

 BROWN. 

died in 1845.

This officer entered the Navy 10 Oct. 1808; passed his examination in 1815; obtained his commission 27 March, 1826; and from 31 May, 1838, until 1844, was employed in the Coast Guard.

 BROWN, Kt. K.H.

, born in 1776, is eldest son of the late William Brown, Esq., of Borland, co. Galloway.

This officer entered the Navy, 8 June, 1795, as A.B., on board the 50, Capts. Hen. Mowat, John Okes Hardy, Robt. Hall, and Rich. Lee, in which ship he continued to serve, as Midshipman, Master’s Mate, and Acting-Lieutenant, on the Newfoundland and North Sea stations, until 1801. During that period, under Capt. Mowat, he witnessed the surrender, 28 Aug. 1796, of the French 36-gun frigate Elizabeth to the 36, one of a squadron commanded by Vice-Admiral Geo. Murray; and, in the summer of 1800, under Capt. Hall, he brought the Duke of Kent from Halifax to England. He was confirmed into the 74, attached to the fleet in the Channel, 6 Nov. 1801; was next appointed, 5 July, 1803, to the  100, Capts. Rich. Curry and Pulteney Malcolm, one of whom he accompanied to the Mediterranean; there removed, 15 March, 1804, to the 74, Capt. John Chambers White; and, on 30 Jan. 1805, joined, as First-Lieutenant, the, of 42 guns and 245 men, Capt. Thos. Baker. On 10 Aug. following Mr. Brown was present in the brilliant action which rendered the French frigate La Didon, of 46 guns and 330 men, a prize to the, after a furious action of three hours and a half, which cost the former a loss of 27 killed and 44 wounded, and the latter of 12 killed and 28 wounded; yet were six years suffered to roll away before he was awarded that promotion to which, as second in command on an occasion of such heroic gallantry, he was so pre-eminently entitled. After sharing, on 4 Nov. in the same year, in Sir Rich. John Strachan’s capture of the four French line-of-battle ships that had escaped from Trafalgar, he was transferred, with Capt. Baker, to the, which ship had been added to the British Navy. He was subsequently appointed, 23 Aug. 1806, to the 38, Capts. Lord Cochrane and Alex. Skene, employed in the Channel; and, for short periods, 28 Dec. 1807, and 14 Nov. 1809, to the 36, and  44, the latter commanded by the Hon. Warwick Lake. He was ultimately advanced to the rank of Commander 1 Aug. 1811; and, on 18 May, 1842, unable to procure further promotion, he accepted the rank of Retired Captain. He was nominated a K.H. 13 Jan. 1835.

Sir Samuel Brown has obtained considerable celebrity by his introduction, besides many other useful inventions, of chain-cables, and suspension bridges and piers. Of the latter it may be sufficient to indicate, as standing monuments of his genius, the bridge across the river Tweed, which was commenced in 1819 and finished in 1820, – and the Pier at Brighton. He married, 14 Aug. 1822, Mary, daughter of John Home, Esq., Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh. – Pellet and Newton.

 BROWN. 

died 3 Feb. 1846. He was son of

This officer passed his examination in 1829; obtained his commission 15 Feb. 1836; became Additional-Lieutenant of the 120, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Josias Rowley, 22 Aug. following, and of the  104, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Stopford on the same station, 16 Aug. 1837; was employed for a few months at the commencement of 1839 in the 50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, lying at Sheerness; joined, 2 April, 1840, the  80, Capt. Sir David Dunn, in the Mediterranean; removed to the  84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, lying at Sheerness, 1 Dec. ensuing; and, from 9 Nov. 1841, until 1845, served in the East Indies as First of the 16, Capt. Wm. Nevill.

He married, 31 Aug. 1841, Barbara Whalley Smythe, second daughter of Sir Jas. W. S. Gardiner, Bart., of Roche Court, co. Hants, and niece of Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., of Ancoats, co. Lancaster, by whom he has left issue. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 BROWN. 

entered the Navy, towards the close of 1787, as Midshipman, on board the 74, Capt. Bourmaster, guard-ship at Portsmouth, and in the following year sailed for the East Indies in the  36, commanded successively by Capts. Geo. Anson Byron and Sir Rich. John Strachan, under the latter of whom he partook, in Nov. 1791, on the Malabar coast, of an obstinate conflict with the French frigate La Résolue, of 46 guns, which terminated in the enemy striking his colours after occasioning a loss to himself of 25 killed and 40 wounded, and to the British of 6 killed and 11 wounded. In 1792 Mr. Brown removed to the 38, flag-ship of Hon. Wm. Cornwallis, and after assisting, in 1793, at the reduction of Chandenagore, Pondicherry, and other places, he returned home with that officer in the 74, and next followed him into the  80, one of the fleet in the Channel, where he was promoted to a Lieutenancy in the  98, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Bourmaster, 24 Oct. 1794. His succeeding appointments were – in Nov. following, to the 74, flag-ship of Sir John Orde on the same station – 11 April, 1795, to the  36, Capt. Robt. Gambler Middleton – 19 June, 1801, as First-Lieutenant, to the 74, Capt. Bendall Robt. Littlehales, in the Channel – 26 March, 1802, to the 50, Capt. Upton, fitting for the Halifax station – and, 3 July following, to the  yacht, Capt. Sir Harry Burrard Neale, off Weymouth. During the six years he was attached to the Flora we find him present at the occupation of Porto Ferrajo, in July, 1796; at the capture, besides the French 16-gun corvette La Corceyre, of nine privateers, carrying in the whole 102 guns and 640 men; and in the expedition to Egypt under Lord Keith and Sir Ralph Abercromby, whose mortal remains he subsequently conveyed to Malta. Capt. Brown, who was advanced to the rank of Commander 8 Oct. 1802, was next appointed, 14 Jan. 1803, to the store-ship, and, in Sept. of the same year, to the  14, in which vessel he afforded every support and assistance to Commodore Owen of the  in a skirmish with the Boulogne flotilla, 23 Oct. 1804, and had the misfortune to be wrecked, 11 July, 1805, on the Splinter Sand, in Dunkerque Road. After cruizing for some time to the westward in the brig, he was awarded, 22 Jan. 1806, the command of the  32, engaged on Channel service, and he next joined in succession Sept. 1808, the  64, employed in the River Medway and off Halifax – 29 May, 1810, the, stationed in the Channel – 30 Aug. 1810 the  74, flag-ship of Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, in which, after escorting a large body of