page_title: Andrew Brown (minister)
section_title: Return to Scotland
hierarchical_section_title: Andrew Brown (minister) / Life / Return to Scotland
caption_attribution_description: English: Greyfriars Kirk seen from Edinburgh Castle
context_page_description: Andrew Brown DD FRSE was Professor of Rhetoric at Edinburgh University and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1813. He was also a historian and author, closely connected to the history of Nova Scotia, having served as a minister at St. Matthew's United Church.
context_section_description: In 1792 Brown briefly returned to Scotland to marry his first wife before returning with her to Nova Scotia. He returned to Scotland permanently in 1795, finding employment as a minister of Lochmaben Church in Dumfriesshire. In 1799 he received a prestigious position at New Greyfriars in Edinburgh and in 1801 translated to the other half of the building, Old Greyfriars (the church at that time being physically split in two to serve two parishes).
  In the same year (1801) he replaced the recently deceased Professor Hugh Blair as Professor of Rhetoric and Belle Lettres at the University of Edinburgh and served this role until his own death. He was aided in securing this position by a recommendation from Prince William Henry. Brown had travelled with the Prince on his return to Scotland in 1795.
  Brown was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1803. He was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1813 by his fellow ministers.
  Brown continued his research after his return to Scotland (covering the period 1790 to 1815) but it was not published during his lifetime. He wrote several drafts of what he intended to be a comprehensive History of North America, but it was never completed and published.
  He died in Carrington, Midlothian
  near Edinburgh on 19 February 1834, and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh city centre.
caption: Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh
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