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'''John Allen Brown'''
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=== House Notes ===
must be relative of James Roberts Brown - see address<br />28 May 1889 proposed<br />death noted in report of the council for 1903: Mr. JOHN ALLEN BROWN,' son of Mr. John Brown, arctic chronicler and one of the founders of the Ethnological Society, is best known as the author of Paleolithic Man in North-West Middlesex, a book which is based mainly upon his observations of the implement-bearing gravels and brick earths of Ealing. In him the Institute loses one of its most frequent and valued contributors on the subject of flint implements, of which he possessed a large collection.
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Father was John Brown (1797-1861). Started life as sailor but became gold and diamond merchant in London. Founding member of Ethnological Society of London (1843). Published widely on Palaeolithic period.<br />His obituary mentions his following ‘General Pitt Rivers’. He coined the term ‘eolith’ according to one source. Chairman of Ealing Free Library. Magistrate<br />
