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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|British Governor of Bombay}}<br />
{{Other people|George Brown}}<br />
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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]]<br />
| name = George Brown<br />
| honorific_suffix = <br />
| image = <br />
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| caption =<br />
| office1 = [[Governor of Bombay]]<br />
| term_start1 = 1811<br />
| term_end1 = 1812<br />
| predecessor1 = [[Jonathan Duncan (Governor of Bombay)|Jonathan Duncan]]<br />
| successor1 = [[Evan Nepean|Sir Evan Nepean]]<br />
| birth_date = 15 December 1775<br />
| birth_place = <br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1819|05|01|1775|12|15|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Baker Street]], [[London]]<br />
| resting_place = [[Streatham]]<br />
| education =<br />
| occupation = [[East India Company]] official<br />
| spouse = {{marriage|Hannah Roberts|1811}}<br />
| parents = <br />
| children = 6<br />
}}<br />
'''George Brown''' (15 December 1775 – 1 May 1819) was an [[East India Company]] [[civil servant]] and the British [[governor of Bombay]] from 11 August 1811 to 12 August 1812. Acting temporarily in the role after the death in office of [[Jonathan Duncan (Governor of Bombay)|Jonathan Duncan]], he was replaced by [[Evan Nepean|Sir Evan Nepean]]. His time in office included work combatting Indian [[infanticide]] and communication with [[Muhammad Ali of Egypt]] on the [[Ottoman–Wahhabi war]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
George Brown was born on 15 December 1775, the son of Thomas Brown, an [[East Indies]] merchant, and Hannah {{nee}} Heptinstall. He was their sixth child.{{sfnp|Oman|1965|p=17}}{{sfnp|Howard|Crisp|1896|p=55}}<br />
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==Career==<br />
Brown became an employee of the [[East India Company]] in the [[Bombay Civil Service]], working in India as a writer ([[clerk]]) as early as 2 April 1789, when he had a [[Charter|covenant]] created.{{sfnp|IHRC|1949|p=138}}{{sfnp|Oman|1965|p=42}}{{sfnp|Howard|Crisp|1896|p=55}} He returned to Britain on [[furlough]] in early 1808 and visited his family at Winifred House in [[Bath, Somerset]].{{sfnp|Oman|1965|pp=45–46}}<br />
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Brown was appointed Third Member of the [[Bombay]] Council while in Britain on 18 January 1811. He sailed to India on board the merchant ship [[Northampton (1801 ship)|''Northampton'']] on 11 March, and took his seat in Bombay on 23 July.{{sfnp|Auber|1826|p=756}}<ref>{{cite news|date=2 March 1811|title=Passengers for India|work=The Caledonian Mercury|location=Edinburgh|page=4}}</ref>{{sfnp|Oman|1965|p=53}}<br />
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With Brown serving as Senior Member of Council, on 11 August the [[Governor of Bombay]], [[Jonathan Duncan (Governor of Bombay)|Jonathan Duncan]], died in office. As the next-most senior official, Brown assumed post to officiate as governor until a new appointee could be sent out.{{sfnp|Douglas|1893|p=378}} Brown continued the policy Duncan had begun of combatting [[infanticide]] among the Indian population, supporting [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] [[James Rivett-Carnac]] in his expedition against Jam Jasaji Lakhaji, ruler of [[Nawanagar State]].{{sfnp|Wilson|1855|pp=94–95}}<br />
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In November the same year, Brown refused a request for military aid from [[Muhammad Ali of Egypt]], who was fighting the [[Ottoman–Wahhabi war]] in which Britain was neutral. By July 1812 setbacks in his campaign against the [[Wahhabi]]s led Ali to again request help from Brown, but this was once more refused, although Brown allowed Ali's agent to purchase military supplies to return with.{{sfnp|Angrist|1965|pp=147–148}} Brown continued in office until [[Evan Nepean|Sir Evan Nepean]] arrived from England to replace him on 12 August 1812.{{sfnp|Douglas|1893|p=378}} Brown remained on the council, by 1814 still taking precedent as Third Member of Council, behind Nepean and [[Miles Nightingall|Sir Miles Nightingall]].{{sfnp|Auber|1826|p=756}}{{sfnp|Hough|1839|p=498}} During this time he served as a vice-president of the Bombay Bible Society.{{sfnp|Hough|1839|p=498}} He resigned from the Bombay Council on 7 September 1817.{{sfnp|Auber|1826|p=756}}<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
While in Britain on furlough in 1808 Brown met and debated marriage to Ellen Sneade, however she was resolutely engaged to another. Despite Brown being presented by his family as a better prospect due to his position in India, nothing came of it.{{sfnp|Oman|1965|p=46}} Instead he married Hannah Roberts of [[Grittleton House]] on 16 February 1811, in [[Grittleton]], [[Wiltshire]].<ref>{{cite news|date=19 February 1811|page=3|title=Married|work=The Times|location=London}}</ref> She travelled with him to India alongside his niece, Hannah Brown. Arrived in India, Brown organised the marriage of Hannah Brown to Captain Monier Williams, with their subsequent children including [[Monier Monier-Williams|Sir Monier Monier-Williams]].{{sfnp|Oman|1965|pp=54–55}} Brown's wife became the patroness of the female branch of the Bombay Bible Society.{{sfnp|Hough|1839|p=499}} Together they had one son and five daughters.{{sfnp|Oman|1965|p=17}}<br />
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Having returned again to Britain, Brown died in his house in [[Baker Street]], [[London]], on 1 May 1819.<ref>{{cite news|date=3 May 1819|title=Died|location=London|work=The Times}}</ref> He was buried in [[Streatham]]. His wife Hannah greatly outlived him, dying aged 88 on 12 February 1876.{{sfnp|Howard|Crisp|1896|p=55}}<br />
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==Citations==<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{cite book|last=Angrist|first=Stanley W.|year=1965|title=East Africa and its Invaders|location=New York|publisher=Russell & Russell}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Auber|first=Peter|year=1826|title=Analysis of the Constitution of the East India Company|location=London|publisher= Kingsbury, Parbury and Allen}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Douglas|first=James|year=1893|title=Bombay and Western India|location=London|publisher=S. Low, Marston & company}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Hough|first=James|year=1839|title=The History of Christianity in India|volume=2|location=London|publisher=R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside}}<br />
*{{cite book|last1=Howard|first1=Joseph Jackson|last2=Crisp|first2=Frederick Arthur|year=1896|title=Visitation of England and Wales|location=London|publisher=College of Arms}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=Indian Historical Records Commission Proceedings of the Meetings of the Silver Jubilee Session|volume=25|year=1949|location=Delhi|publisher=Government of India Press|ref={{harvid|IHRC|1949}}}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Oman|first=Carola|year=1965|title=Ayot Rectory|location=London|publisher=Hodder and Stoughton}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=John|year=1855|title=History of the Suppression of Infanticide in Western India|location=Bombay|publisher=Smith Taylor}}<br />
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