Brown, George (1835 - 1917)

Born Barnard Castle, Durham, England, 7 Dec. 1835; died Gordon, Sydney, 7 Apr. 1917.

Methodist missionary. To NZ 1855. Lived variously in NZ, Samoa, New Britain, but visited other islands, New Guinea etc., & Australia as Secretary Foreign Missionary Soc. 1887-1908, incl. Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane.

Collected plants & animals at Moe?, Vic.

Specimens at MEL.

Ethnographic collections at Hancock Museum, Newcastle.

Wrote autobiography: George Brown, D.D.: Pioneer Missionary and Explorer, Hodder & Stoughton, London (1908);
portrait: frontispiece (see right)

Source: George, A.S. (2009) Australian Botanist's Companion, Four Gables Press, WA. [consult for source references]
Portrait Photo: Extracted from: https://archive.org/stream/georgebrownddpio00browiala#page/n5/mode/2up (viewed 25.11.2013)