Author: Brown, James Robert
Biography:
BROWN, James Robert (fl 1826-37)
He may have been the James R. Brown who was recorded in the 1851 Census as living at 4 Heneage Street, Spitalfields, London, with his wife Penelope. He was a bookseller and born in about 1796. That James R. Brown died on 3 Feb. 1860 and was buried on 12 Feb 1860 in the Tower Hamlets cemetery. James Robert Brown was a key figure in the infant schools’ movement and he was master of one of the first such schools, in Spitalfields. The schools were based on those established by Robert Owen at New Lanark; an account of Brown’s opening of a new school on St. Ann Street in Nottingham indicates that at least some of the pupils were rounded up from the streets to be educated. Brown’s other publications include A Compendium of the Analytical Method of Instruction at Spitalfields Infants’ School (1826), A Short Essay on Infant Cultivation (1826), and The Infant School Echo (1838). (ancestry.co.uk 7 Sept. 2023; Nottingham and Newark Mercury 14 Apr. 1827)
Other Names:
- J. R. Brown