Robert Brown - Minister at Utrecht
Biography
Birth: 1728
Death: 1777
Married (1763) to Catharine Kinloch (1736-?), a daughter of James Kinloch and Anne Marguerite Wild. Minister of the English church at Utrecht (1751/7-1777), British Agent at Utrecht (1763-1777).1
Life with James Boswell
Brown was one of Boswell's closest friends during his stay in Utrecht 1763-64. He is first mentioned in Boswell's memoranda of September 18, 1763, when Boswell was to have tea with Brown. Boswell often visited and dined with Brown and his family during the next year, and he attended the bapitsm (with Lord Marischal as godfather) of Brown's first child, Ann Elizabeth Brown (1764-1842), on June 17, 1764.
Notes
Note 1: The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal of Britain: The Anne of Exeter Volume, p. 596. Available for browsing online at www.Ancestry.co.uk.
Mentioned in
Robert Brown is mentioned in:
- Boswell in Holland 1763-1764
