George Brown

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• Residence: Threadneedle Street, London; The alms-houses, in their present improved state, derive their origin from the princely munificence of the late George Brown, Esq., of Stockton, and of Threadneedle Street, London. For this benevolent purpose he bequeathed £3,000, and likewise £1,000 to the treasurer of the school for the blue-coat boys and girls at Stockton, for the general purpose of the charity. This excellent gentleman died in Londpon in Oct 1814. Stockton: an historical, biographical and descriptive poem ...By Thomas Webber p33 Pub. Jennett, 1830 (I believe this relates to his son George Brown the younger and I've copied it to there - MW)
• Occupation: 1758; Mariner, of the parish of Stockton (at his wedding).
• Residence: Abt 1760, 8, Paradise Row, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England; The Browns owned and occupied No. 8, Paradise Row, Stockton; which was afterwards inhabited by the Misses Welbank. [Genealogical Additions to the History of Stockton upon Tees. Page 102]

George married Margaret Welbank on 6 Feb 1758 in St Alphage, Greenwich. Margaret (daughter of George Welbank and Margaret Chapman) was born on 27 Jun 1737 in Gainford, Durham, England; died on 14 Nov 1776; was buried in Stockton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: the late Mr Brown of Threadneedle Street, London, ~1760 The alms-houses, in their present improved state, derive their origin from the princely munificence of the late George Brown, Esq., of Stockton, and of Threadneedle Street, London. For this benevolent purpose he bequeathed £3,000, and likewise £1,000 to the treasurer of the school for the blue-coat boys and girls at Stockton, for the general purpose of the charity. This excellent gentleman died in Londpon in Oct 1814. Stockton: an historical, biographical and descriptive poem ...By Thomas Webber p33 Pub. Jennett, 1830
• Note: 1814; very long Will, mentions sister Jemima Gilpin, sisters Elizabeth Preston and Margaret Brown, George Welbank and Captain Robert Welbank, aunts Jane and Mary Welbank of Stockton, "Mary Arnold or Brown" residing in Huntingdon, Sarah Hill residing in Huntingdon, Jemima Welbank of Ramsgate, Mary Bethell, Mrs Harriet Sampson wife of WIlliam Sampson (one of his executors), Lady Baird wife of Sir David Baird, bart., Miss Catherine Preston sister to Lady Baird

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Died:
Will of the Revd John Gilpin of Sedbury
jewels and ... namely a sprig ornament for the head a Maltese Cross a pair of ear rings a Song Broach two pins and a pair of bracelets diamond clasps with Roman pearl all of which belonged to Dame Elizabeth Preston the late sister of my wife Jemima Gilpin to Richard Bethell of Rise...Esquire and William Sampson of York Place in the County of Middlesex Esquire upon trust
[to be held according to the will of Elizabeth Preston - not clear whether they are to be sold]

Elizabeth married Sir Robert Preston, Bart on 27 Apr 1790 in St Andrew's Holborn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
outlived her brother George as she is mentioned in his Will.

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• Note: George Brown, esq., who died in October 1814, and who was proprietor of two- thirds of the manors Arkingarthdale otherwise Arkindale and the New Forest, built a school in Arkindale about a year before his death, for the education of all the children of that manor on the Madras system, allowing the master 441. a year in addition to the fixed stipend of 161. above-mentioned. Mr. Brown, by his Will, dated the 16th February 1811, devised his two-thirds of the manors and all his lands and hereditaments, formerly the estate of Charles Bathurst the elder and Charles Bathurst his son, in Arkindale and New Forest, Kirby Hill and Kirby Ravensworth, in the county of York, to George Welbank, William Sampson and Robert Clarke, esqrs. and Mr. George Alderson, upon certain trusts, for the benefit of his sisters Jemima, wife of the Rev. John Gilpin, and Dame Elizabeth Preston, wife of Sir Robert Preston, bart., and others of his family or relations; and by a Codicil to his Will, dated the 19th of Feb- ruary 1811, he gave to the said trustees in his Will named, the sum of 3,000l., upon trust, as soon as conveniently might be after his decease, to pay and apply so much thereof as they should see necessary (for to their discretion he entirely submitted the same), in the building of two schools within the parish of Arkingarthdale, in such situations as in their opinion should be most con- venient for and best adapted to the education of the children residing within the said parish ; and upon further trust, to invest upon government or real securities, the residue of the said sum of 3,000l., which should not be so paid and applied as aforesaid, and to pay the dividends or interest thereof to the masters for the time being of the said schools, in equal proportions, as the sole and only recompence for teaching the said children; and he directed that the person or persons who for the time being should be seised of his two-thirds of the manor of Arkingarthdale, should have the sole conduct and direction of the said schools, and that they should as soon as the said schools should be inhabitable, nominate and appoint two proper masters thereto, and from time to time nominate and appoint others, as often as any vacancy should happen, and should from time to time fix and appoint the number of children to be instructed at each school, and make and ordain such rules for the manage- ment of the said schools as they should conceive would be the most conducive to York.] FOR INQUIRING CONCERNING CHARITIES. 609 to the education of the children, to the improvement of their morals and for promoting christian virtue. Since Mr. Brown's death, Lady Preston's trustees having purchased the third of the two manors which had belonged to a different proprietor, the entirety is now vested in William Sampson, of Copthall-court, Throgmortonstreet, London, esq., Robert Clarke, of Stockton-upon-Tees, esq., Robert Welbank, of Tandridge, Surrey, esq., and William Bethell, esq., of Rise in the county of York; the two last named being substituted trustees for the purposes of Mr. Brown's Will. The trustees of the Will being advised that the bequest of the 3,000l. was void under the Statute of Mortmain, took no steps to carr the bequest into effect, but Mrs. Gilpin and Lady Preston and their husban have continued the school at Arkindale, upon the same footing on which it was supported by Mr. Brown at the time of his death. With respect to the two payments of 4 l. each for apprenticing a boy, or other purposes mentioned in the Will of Dr. Bathurst, we do not find that these sums have usually been specifically paid or applied; and in answer to our inquiry on this subject we are informed that the |. of the manors and estates have allowed to each of the respective schoolmasters at Arkindale and in the New Forest a house to live in rent-free, and also a schoolroom and some little land, and that the two sisters of Mr. Brown also supply the school at Arkindale with bibles and other books; and it is suggested, that thus, in fact as to the Arkindale school at least, effect is given to Dr. Bathurst's donation of 4l, and it is added, that the salary of the master at Arkindale and his house to live in, with some land, amount in the whole to 721. a year. It seems, however, to us proper and desirable, that the directions of Dr. Bathurst should be complied with as to the specific payments of the two sums of 41. each, and the application of them to the purposes mentioned in the Will, or such of those purposes as can conveniently be effected. The school at Arkindale was numerously attended at the time of our inquiry, there being occasionally 150 scholars. They are instructed in reading, writing and accounts, with the Church Catechism. The school for the children of New Forest is kept at Helwith in that district, and all children of the New Forest who apply are admitted, and instructed as free scholars in reading, writing and accounts; but the number of children attending that school is much less considerable, the New Forest being much more thinly peopled than Arkindale, which contains three villages, besides several scattered farms and miner's houses.

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Plaque in Arkengarthdale Church

Family/Spouse: Rev John Gilpin. John was born in c. 1770; died on 17 Feb 1844 in Sedbury Hall, Yorks. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: Changed his name to Gilpin-Brown because he inherited George Brown the Younger's estate. His sons were entitled to bear arms including the Gilpin motto "dictis factisque simplex" (plain in word and deed) probably granted to him when he changed his name.