BROUGHTON, JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE, 1ST LORD (1786-1869).--Eldest _s._ of Sir Benjamin H., _b._ at Redland near Bristol, _ed._ at Westminster School and at Camb., where he became intimate with Byron, and accompanied him in his journeys in the Peninsula, Greece, and Turkey, and acted as his "best man." In 1816 he was with him after his separation from his wife, and contributed notes to the fourth canto of _Childe Harold_, which was dedicated to him. On his return he threw himself into politics with great energy as an advanced Radical, and wrote various pamphlets, for one of which he was in 1819 imprisoned in Newgate. In the following year he entered Parliament, sitting for Westminster. After the attainment of power by the Whigs he held various offices, including those of Sec. at War, Chief Sec. for Ireland, and Pres. of the Board of Control. He _pub._ _Journey through Albania_ (1813), _Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold_ (1818), and _Recollections of a Long Life_ (1865), for private circulation, and he left in MS. _Diaries, Correspondence, and Memoranda, etc., not to be opened till 1900_, extracts from which were _pub._ by his _dau._, Lady Dorchester, also under the title of _Recollections from a Long Life_ (1909). BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-1810).--Novelist, _b._ in Philadelphia, belonged to a Quaker family, became a lawyer, but exchanged law for literature, and has the distinction of being the first American to adopt a purely literary career. He wrote several novels, including _Wieland_ (1798), _Ormond_ (1799), _Arthur Mervyn_ (1800-1), and his last, _Jane Talbot_ (1801). With a good deal of crudeness and sentimentality he has occasional power, but dwells too much on the horrible and repulsive, the result, perhaps, of the morbidity produced by the ill-health from which he all his life suffered. BROWN, GEORGE DOUGLAS (1869-1902).--Novelist, wrote _The House with the Green Shutters_, which gives a strongly outlined picture of the harder and less genial aspects of Scottish life and character. It may be regarded as a useful supplement and corrective to the more roseate presentations of the kail-yard school of J.M. Barrie and "Ian Maclaren." It made a considerable impression. The author _d._ almost immediately after its publication. There is an ed. with a memoir by Mr. Andrew Lang.