William Godwin's Diary

Brown, William Cullen

  • Name: Brown, William Cullen
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date:
  • Death Date:
  • Occupation: surgeon

Brown was the son of John Brown (1735-1788; DNB) who edited and published some of his father's works, but who seems to have been based in London for a period. A letter from him to Godwin shows Brown waiting to take the examination in surgery and mentions the possibility of a placement in the Navy.

Brown's brothers include Ford Brown, who also appears in the diary (25 June 1812), and who was father of the painter Ford Maddox Brown.

  • MS. Abinger c. 10, fols. 2-3: 1 September 1806
  • John Watkins, A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1816)

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name Number of Meetings
Turner, Thomas 2
Northcote, James 1
Imlay, Fanny (Godwin) 1
Clairmont, Charles 1
Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane (Claire) 1
Fenwick, John 1
Knowles, John 1
Taylor, Susannah (née Cook) 1
Taylor, Richard 1
Taylor, Arthur 1
Hogan, 1
Lawrence, James Henry (Chevalier) 1
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 1
Fenwick, Eliza Anne 1
Wollstonecraft, Mary (Godwin) 1
Johnson, Joseph 1
Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli) 1
Bonnycastle, John 1
Barlow, Joel 1
Cooper, Thomas (Abthorpe) 1
Wollstonecraft, James 1
Marshall, James 1
Hazlitt, William 1
Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair) 1
Mercier, Charles André 1