| birth_date = 18011797| death_date = 18791861| address = Australia [APS]

geographer?<br />??John Brown (1801?-1879), emigration agent and company manager, was the son of Samuel Brown and his wife Maria Josepha, daughter of the Nonconformist divine Robert Robinsonborn in Dover in 1797, and a relation of George Augustus Robinson. He attended Mill Hill School from 1812 to 1815 and in 1833 was an importer of wines and spirits at St Mary at Hill, with his name registered served for some time as a voter midshipman in the city of LondonEast India Company's service. Next year, on the failure of his business, In March 1819 he joined was forced to leave the South Australian colonizing movement. With Rev. Thomas Binney sea because of Weigh House Chapel and with Revpoor eyesight. Barzillai Quaife he was associated in separate plans for providing the new colony with religious instruction He went on Dissenting principles. His understanding of the principles of systematic colonization was also singularly clear; he offered £250 to help the South Australian Association to continue, reported with R. D. Hanson on land for the Colonization Commission become a diamond merchant and assisted Edward Gibbon Wakefield to prepare evidence for the select committee on the disposal of colonial waste landsmade a fortune.[1]<br />In seeking appointment as official emigration agent He took a keen interest in the colony, Brown had to face the opposition of Colonel Robert Torrens, but was supported by Sir Moses Montefiore, by George Fife Angas who bought land orders worth £2000 to ensure his appointmentgeographical exploration, and by Fowell Buxton M.P. who wanted him to be protector became a fellow of Aborigines as well. With others Brown signed the guarantee to enable the colony to be founded, but Torrens did not relent until June 1836. Brown sailed Geographical Society in the Africaine and arrived in the colony in November1837. Next year he figured prominently in disputes over He presented a portrait of his friend James Weddell (the separation explorer of powers in the South Australian Act. He had been appointed by the colonization commissioners and was therefore subject Antarctic) to their orders, not to those of the governor. When society in September 1837 (Sir) John Hindmarsh suspended him from office for alleged neglect of duty1839, the resident commissioner, (Sir) James Fisher, promptly issued a printed handbill that Brown was still the official emigration agent. Hindmarsh replied with a proclamation appointing Yletter advocating further expeditions. B. Hutchinson in In 1843 Brownobtained a pension for Weddell's placewidow from Sir Robert Peel. The question He was referred to a founder of the Ethnological Society of London and, after Governor George Gawler's arrival in October 1838, Brown was reinstated. He resigned within a the same year and with Charles Mann edited the Southern Australian, having signed the manifesto on 31 July 1837 proposing its foundation.<br />In October 1840 Brown was elected to Adelaide's first Municipal Council. Five years later, he became a director noted advocate of the South Australian Mining Association after buying seventy-five expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin. He defined the original £5 shares in area which the Burra mine. In 1846 during the struggle against state aid expedition was ultimately found to churcheshave reached, he but was elected a secretary of the League for the Preservation of Religious Freedom, and undertook to collect signatures for a petition not attended to at the Queentime. Later he joined other leading voluntaryists in opening He published The North-west Passage and the short lived South Australian High School as a rival to the Collegiate School of St Peter. Thereafter he withdrew from public affairs to devote himself to Plans for the Adelaide Life Association and Guarantee Co., which he managed Search for more than thirty yearsSir John Franklin: a review (1860). He died at Gilbert Street, Adelaide, was complimented on 17 August 1879this work by Alexander von Humboldt. He had married twice but left no childrenBrown made large collections illustrative of Arctic adventure.[1]<br />From 11 February 1834 to 3 July 1836 Brown kept a diary which is now one of the best sources of information on the successful struggle to colonize South Australia. His shrewd criticisms and revealing comments show wife predeceased him as a penetrating observer of men , and events. The diary he died in 1861, leaving three sons and many of his papers are in the Mitchell Library. His portrait is in the National Gallery of South Australiatwo daughters.<br />