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JOHN BROWN, JUN
JOHN BROWN, JUN., of Lanfin, son of Nicol Brown, surgeon in Newmilns, Ayrshire, and brother of Dr. Thomas Brown of Langside. Mr. Brown was a very influential and respected merchant. He was a member and principal partner of the firm of Brown, Carrick, & Co., bleachers, manufacturers, and general merchants, Bell's Wynd. He was also accountant and partner in the Ship Bank. Mr. Brown was highly prosperous in business, and became wealthy. He repurchased the property of Waterhaughs, which at one time belonged to his grandmother, Marion Campbell, but had passed out of the family; and he added the estate to his own property in Ayrshire, upon which he built a mansion which he named Lawnfine, usually written and pronounced Lanfin. His town house stood in the narrow lane in which his bleaching warehouse was situated, overlooking on one side the Candleriggs bowling green, now the bazaar, and on the other the generally muddy lane. His son Nicol, at his father's death in 1802, succeeded to his estates, and, dying about four years after, left the property to his cousin, George Brown, eldest son of Dr. Thomas Brown of Langside. At the death of George Brown the next heir was his youngest brother Thomas. He got Daldowie through his mother and aunt, daughters of George Bogle. Langside was his father's property, and Lanfin the property of John Brown, jun., his uncle, and latterly of his brother George.
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