John Brown (moderator)

John Brown (1850-1919) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1916.

He is buried with his family in Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh.

[3] Four sons were killed in the First World War: John Rankine Brown (1886-1917) Captain in the Highland Light Infantry, was killed in Gaza in Palestine; William Sandilands Brown (1891-1918) Captain in the North Staffordshire Regiment, was killed in Flanders in the final weeks of the war; George James Rankine Brown (1893-1917), Second Lieutenant in the Black Watch.

died of wounds at Amara in Mesopotamia; and Harold Halstead Brown (1896-1916) Second Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders, killed at Delville Wood in the Battle of the Somme.

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The grave of Very Rev John Brown, Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh