George Brown, the younger

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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