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BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 663 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BROWN, See also:WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830) , Scottish divine, was See also:born on the 7th of See also:January 1755 at See also:Utrecht, where his See also:father was See also:minister of the See also:English See also:church. The father, having been appointed See also:professor of ecclesiastical See also:history at St See also:Andrews, returned to See also:Scotland in 1757, and his son went to the See also:grammar school of that See also:city, and then to the university: After passing through the divinity classes, he went in 1794 to the university of Utrecht, where he studied See also:theology and See also:civil See also:law. In 1977 he was appointed to the English church in Utrecht, and about 1788 to the professorship of moral See also:philosophy and ecclesiastical history in the university, to which was soon added the professorship of the law of nature. The See also:war which followed the See also:French Revolution finally drove Brown in January 1795 to See also:London, where he was cordially welcomed. In 1795 the magistrates of See also:Aberdeen appointed him to the See also:chair of divinity, and soon after he was made See also:principal of Marischal See also:College. In the See also:year 'Soo he was appointed See also:chaplain in See also:ordinary to the See also:king, and in 1804 See also:dean of the See also:chapel royal, and of the See also:order of the See also:Thistle. He died on the 11th of May 183o. His most widely-known See also:works were an See also:Essay on the Natural Equality of Men (1793), which gained the Teyler Society's See also:prize; a See also:treatise On the Existence of the Supreme Creator (t8r6), to which was awarded the first See also:Burnet prize of £125o; and A See also:Comparative View of See also:Christianity, and of the other Forms of See also:Religion with regard to their Moral Tendency (2 vols., 1826).

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