Andrew Brown (5 November 1797 – 2 April 1894[1][2]), a Scottish–born Australian industrialist, pastoralist, and philanthropist, was instrumental in founding the township of Lithgow as well as a number of Presbyterian institutions.
He was educated in Methven, Perth and Kinross and arrived in the Colony of New South Wales aboard Brutus on 24 September 1828.
[2] In the period between 1824 and 1826[clarification needed] Brown acquired land at Bowenfels, New South Wales, effectively creating the first European settlement in the Lithgow Valley.
In the 1860s Brown claimed to have found coal on his land, however it was Alfred Carter who was working on property at the time.
[3][5] As well as being an enterprising industrialist, Brown is also remembered as being a major contributor to the social fabric of the Presbyterian community of Lithgow and throughout New South Wales.