John Brown (physician, born 1810)

John Brown
Engraving or possibly photograph of John Brown. He is wearing a suit and waistcoat, sideways on to the artist/photographer. He is unsmiling, wearing glasses, and balding.
Born(1810-09-22)22 September 1810
Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died11 May 1882(1882-05-11) (aged 71)
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityScottish
Occupation(s)physician, essayist
John Brown
23 Rutland Street, Edinburgh
The grave of Dr John Brown, New Calton Cemetery, Edinburgh

John Brown FRSE FRCPE (22 September 1810 – 11 May 1882) was a Scottish physician and essayist known for his three-volume Horae Subsecivae (Leisure Hours, 1858), containing essays and papers on art, medical history and biography. Best remembered are his dog story "Rab and his Friends" (1859) and his essays "Pet Marjorie" (1863), on Marjorie Fleming, the ten-year-old prodigy and alleged "pet" of Walter Scott, "Our Dogs", "Minchmoor", and "The Enterkine".[1] Brown was half-brother to the organic chemist Alexander Crum Brown.

  1. ^ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002: Biographical Index (PDF). Vol. I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Retrieved 3 April 2020.