Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry

BROWN, David Paul (1795-1872: WBIS)

An eminent barrister and orator. He was born in Philadelphia to Paul and Rhoda (Thakara) Brown and raised in a wealthy, cultivated home. He was called to the bar in Philadelphia at 21 and advanced rapidly in his profession; he was also in demand as a public speaker. In 1826 he married Emmeline Catherine Handy; they had seven children. He wrote several plays but only two seem to have been published (both in verse): Sertorius and The Prophet of St. Paul's (1836). After forty years as a lawyer he published his memoirs, entitled The Forum (1856). After his death, one of his sons brought out a selection of his most celebrated court speeches, The Forensic Speeches of David Paul Brown (1873). (DAB; Appleton) HJ

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