Brown, Jonathan (1)

an English Wesleyan minister, was born near Stanhope, in Weardale, about 1750. He was converted at the age of twenty-two, and was admitted into the Connection in 1778. His first field was the Isle of Man; he labored six years in Ireland, and the rest of his ministerial life was. spent in the northern part of England. He became a supernumerary in 1817, and died at Hull, August 2, 1825. He labored on twenty-four circuits, on seventeen of which he gathered in many new members. He was diligent, mightily in earnest, and frequently spent whole nights in prayer. See Wesl. Meth. Magazine, 1826, page 505; Minutes of the British Conference, 1826.