Brown, John, of Haddington, a self-educated Scotch divine, born at Carpow, near Abernethy, Perthshire, son of a poor weaver, left an orphan at 11, became a minister of a Dissenting church in Haddington; a man of considerable learning, and deep piety; author of “Dictionary of the Bible,” and “Self-interpreting Bible” (1722‒1787).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brown, John * Brown, John, M.D.