Brown Chamberlin

Brown Chamberlin (March 26, 1827 – July 13, 1897) was a Quebec lawyer, publisher and political figure.

[1] He was born in Frelighsburg, Lower Canada in 1827, the son of Brown Chamberlin,[2] a doctor.

He resigned his seat in the House of Commons when he was named Queen's Printer in Ottawa in 1870;[3] Chamberlin held this post until 1891.

[2] In 1870, Brown Chamberlin married Agnes Dunbar FitzGibbon, daughter of Sheriff Moodle, of Belleville and Susanna Moodie.

She drew on the lithographing stone the set of Canadian Fungi (edible) published by the Geological Survey of Canada.