Author: Brown, Robert Dunmoor Craufurd
Biography:
BROWN, Robert Dunmoor Craufurd (1758-1832: Historic Environment Scotland)
Through his mother, Helen Dunmoor, he was the grandson and ward of Thomas Dunmoor (Dunmore), a prominent and wealthy tobacco trader in Glasgow. His father was Hugh Brown, a Glasgow merchant. He was born on 23 Apr. 1758 in Glasgow. He married Elizabeth Kerr with whom he had at least one son, Hugh Horatio Brown (q.v.), and a daughter. His grandfather purchased Newhall, Carlops, Peebleshire, for him in 1783; the location is the setting for Allan Ramsay’s The Gentle Shepherd, and Brown endeavoured to keep both the estate’s landscape and the interior of the house faithful to the details of Ramsay’s poem. His 1830 collection of his dramas (the first of his books to be published with his name) is dedicated to his grandfather, “Thomas Dunmoor of Kelvinside, Esquire.” Records are not conclusive but he probably died at home in late Dec. 1833. (http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/GDL00297 29 May 2018; ancestry.co.uk 29 Apr. 2019, 23 July 2025) SR