P_10433_3029 – George Brown
London ship and insurance broker, leaving a major fortune of £175,000 in personalty. George Browne [sic] was co-owner in a single voyage from London of the Francis and Harriott to the Gold Coast and Grenada in 1792. His co-owners included William Welbank (q.v.) and George Sharp (q.v.), identified in 1793 as having been his business partners in Welbank, Sharp and Brown of Sun Court, Threadneedle Street until 16/10/1791.
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First name: George
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Last name: Brown
Aliases: Browne, George
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
Religion: Church of England
Social background: Trade
Primary outcome: Gentry
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Geographic experiences
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Internal migrant: Yes
Born in Stockton on Tees
Foreign born: Don't know
Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Philanthropy: Yes
Several bequests in his will to educational and religious causes are detailed under 'Legacies'.
Plantation owner: Don't know
Sources: London Gazette 4 June 1793Issue:13535Page:469. The George Browne who was a Liverpool slave-trader with 6 voyages between 1792 and 1800 appears unconnected. There is no obvious overlap in the two men's co-owners or captains. London Gazette 25 March 1806Issue:15904Page:395. PROB 11/1562/346. https://heritage.stockton.gov.uk/articles/places/paradise-row-an-eighth-heavenly-address/ W.D. Rubinstein, Who were the Rich? Vol. 1 1809-1824, 1814/29 'Brown, George.'
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Organisations (1)
Lloyd's of London
Role: Member
Crossings (1)
81510 - Francis and Harriot (1791 - 1792)
Role: Owner
Birth
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Death
Date: 23/10/1814
Location: City of London (Middlesex)
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Residencies
Stockton on Tees, Co. Durham
Occupation: Insurance Broker (Finance)
Partner in Welbank, Sharp and Brown until 1791, and with George Welbank and John Petyt until 1806.
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Military training
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
Value of Total Personalty: £175,000
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Occupation: Ship and Insurance Broker
Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of George Brown of Stockton Durham and of Sun Court Threadneedle Street made 16/02/1811 with a series of codicils. He placed his real estate at Thornaby in Yorkshire and in Co. Durham in trust to behold with the income form the proceeds to his sister Jemima Gilpin and then to her husband Rev. John Gilpin, and then their children (on condition they changed their names to Brown upon inheriting), with remainder half to his late partner George Welbank and the other half to Capt. Robert Welbank of the Cuffnells [?]. He left a further parcel of real estate to be sold to support his sister Margaret Brown of Diston and an annuity of £250 p.a. to his two aunts Jane and Mary Welbank, and then to Dame Elizabeth Preston. He left £40,000 in consols in trust for the benefit of Mary Arnold or Brown of Huntingdon [presumably a natural daughter for life, or until marriage, and then to her children. He left a list of further monetary legacies of some £30,000 to friends and family, with £1500 to rebuild the chapel or church at Arkletown in the parish of Arkingarthdale [sic]; £1000 to the Blue Coats School at Stockton; and £3000 to rebuild the almshouses at Stockton. He left £13,000 to his executors for their own use. He left this two-thirds share of mines at Arkindale among his family with consent to his executors to invest up to £10,000 after his death until their sale. In a codicil he left £3000 to fund two schools at Arkengarthdale. In further codicil he left £1700 in trust for his servant Samuel Ludlow.
Legacies
Philanthropy
Type: Social
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Year: 1814
Value: £3,000
George Brown left £3000 to rebuild almshouses at Stockton-on-Tees in his will proved in 1814.
Philanthropy
Type: Educational
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Year: 1814
Value: £1,000
George Brown left £1000 to the Blue Coats School at Stockton in 1814.
Physical Imprints
Building Category: Rural
Type: Built
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Year: 1814-1820
Value: £1,500
St Mary's Church, Arkengarthdale was built c. 1818 replacing a medieval church, and consecrated in 1820. This was almost certainly the church provided for in the will of George Brown, who left £1500 to replace the church at Arkle Town.
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