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Ford Brown

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Scotland, United Kingdom
Death: 1842 (57-66)
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Immediate Family:

Son of John Brown and Euphemia Lamond
Husband of Caroline Madox
Father of Euphemia Sarah Brown; Eliza Coffin Brown and Ford Madox Brown
Brother of Euphemia Brown; Elizabeth Cullen Brown; William Cullen Brown; John Brown; Edward Stevens Brown and 1 other
Half brother of John Brown

Occupation: purser in the Royal Navy
Managed by: Alisdair James Smyth
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About Ford Brown

Ford Madox Brown was the grandson of the medical theorist John Brown, founder of the Brunonian system of medicine. His great grandfather was a Scottish labourer.

His father Ford Brown served as a purser in the Royal Navy, including a period serving under Sir Isaac Coffin and a period on HMS Arethusa. He left the Navy after the end of the Napoleonic Wars.


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Ford Brown's Timeline

1780
1780
Scotland, United Kingdom
1816
1816
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
1818
1818
Kensington, England, United Kingdom
1821
April 16, 1821
Fleurac, Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
1842
1842
Age 62
Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France