He was born in
Aberdeen in 1803 the fourth son of Alexander Brown, a bookseller, and twice
Lord Provost of Aberdeen, and his wife, Catharine Chalmers. He was educated at
Aberdeen Grammar School. He studied Divinity at
Aberdeen University graduating in 1821. He was licensed to preach in 1826 then went to
London for two years to work with
Edward Irving.[3]
He returned to Scotland in 1829 to assist in the ministry at
Dumbarton. Emerging from a period of doubt which accompanied his studies, he became a probationer in the Church of Scotland and assistant to the celebrated Edward Irving in London, 1830-32. In 1835 he became minister of Ord,
Banffshire in the Presbytery of
Fordyce, Aberdeenshire.
He died at home, 104 Crown Street in Aberdeen on 3 July 1897.
Family
He married Catherine (died 30 July 1879, aged 75), third daughter of William Dyce, M.D., Aberdeen, and Margaret Chalmers, on 25 February 1836 at Saint Nicholas's Church, Aberdeen, Scotland.[5] and had issue —
Margaret Dyce (married 1860 Sir David Stewart of Banchory, Lord Provost of Aberdeen from 1889 to 1894.)
Alexander, I.C.S., died 1861
David Dyce, M.D., London, born 30 August 1840
Catherine Hannah
Jane Charlotte (married James Fyfe, merchant, Manila)
Meredith Jemima, Head of Shaftesbury Institute, London, died 8 November 1908.[6]
Christ's Second Coming: Will it be
Premillennial? Edinburgh, 1846.
Watchman, what of the Sight? (Edinburgh, 1855)
To Whom shall We Go? (Aberdeen, 1857)
On United and Universal Prayers (Edinburgh, 1860)
Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (Glasgow, 1860)
The Restoration of the Jews: the History, Principles, and Bearings of the Question (Edinburgh, 1861)
Crushed Hopes crowned in Death (London, 1861) in memory of his son, Alexander Brown, (d. 1860) London, 1861.[7]
The Union Question (Edinburgh, 1867)
A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments [with Robert Jamieson, D.D., and Andrew Robert Fausset, D.D.], vols. v. and vi. (Glasgow, 1868-70)
Life of the late
John Duncan (1796–1870), LLD. (Edinburgh, 1872)
The Apocalypse : Its Structure and Primary Predictions (London, 1891).
Gospels,
Acts of the Apostles, and
Epistle to the Romans in R. Jamieson and A. R. Fausset Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments 6 vols. Glasgow, 1864–70.
Commentary on the Epistles to the Corinthians in
Philip SchaffPopular Commentary on the New Testament, 1882.
Epistle to the Romans Dods and Whyte's Handbooks for Bible Classes, Edinburgh, 1883.[6]
Bibliography
In Memoriam, 1897
Guthrie's Chalmers and Trail Ancestry, 25, 85, 144