Brown Johndoctorandessayist

Brown, John, doctor and essayist, son of the preceding, was born in 1810 at Biggar. Educated in the Edinburgh High school and University, he graduated M.D. in 1833, and began to practise as a physician, devoting his leisure to literature. His writings, which comprise papers on art, medicine, poetry, and humorous and pathetic sketches, are collected into the two volumes of Horae Subsecivae (leisure hours), and John Leech and other Papers. His most characteristic pieces are Rab and his Friends and Pet Marjorie. He died suddenly in 1882 in Edinburgh.