Andrew Brown FRSE (22 August 1763 – 19 February 1834) was Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Edinburgh 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 in Halifax.

[1] In 1787, Brown travelled to Halifax, Nova Scotia to serve as a minister at St. Matthews Church.

During this period he gathered historical information for a future publication on the history of North America.

Brown's research appears to have included extended correspondence with the American historian Jeremy Belknap, whom he met during this same visit.

He returned to Scotland permanently in 1795, finding employment as a minister of Lochmaben Church in Dumfriesshire.

[2] In 1799 he received a prestigious position at New Greyfriars in Edinburgh but in July 1800 translated to the Old Kirk of St Giles.

His final marriage was to Mary Ogilvie (d.1852), widow of Dr Andrew Pearson of Primrose Bank.