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The Times, Thursday July 2 1903, page 11
Ecclesiastical Intelligence
"...Owing to the heavy demands of the Wesleyan conference, it is arranged that the Rev. John Milton Brown, an Indian Missionary, shall take the Rev. Marshall Hartley's duties at the Wesleyan Mission-house during the year..."
The Times, Friday July 29, 1904, page 5
Ecclesiastical Intelligence
The Wesleyan Conference
"...The Rev. Frederick W. MacDonald having announced his intention to retuire from the Mission-house at the conference of 1905, a ballot was taken, and the Rev. John Milton Brown was designated to succeed him as foreign missionary secretary..."
The Times, Saturday December 10 1904, page 12
Ecclesiastical Intelligence
"...The Rev. J. Milton Brown and Major Hincksman have left this week on a visit of inspection of the Wesleyan mission stations in the West Indies. They are to report to the London committee, on their return, as to the financial condition of the missions there..."
The Times, Tuesday August 27 1912, page 7
Ecclesiastical Intelligence
Wesleyan Ministerial Changes
"...In the departmental offices, the Rev. Dr. Henry Haigh of Newcastle-on-Tyne, ex-president of the Conference, succeeds the Rev. J. Milton Brown as secretary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society..."
The Times, Thursday December 13 1934, page 1
Deaths
"BROWN - On Dec.11 1934 at 56, Athenaeum Road, Whetstone, N.20 after a few days illness, the Rev. J. Milton Brown in his 92nd year. Service at Methodist Church, Station Road, New Barnet, to-morrow (Friday) at 2 p.m. Interment, Islington Cemetery, 3 p.m."
The Times, Thursday December 13 1934, page 21
Obituaries
The Rev. J. Milton Brown
"The veteran Methodist missionary, the Rev. J. Milton Brown died at East Barnet on Tuesday, at the age of 91.
"He was a member of an old Methodist family in Somerset, and was born at Porlock on June 26, 1843. After being three years at Richman College he went out to North Ceylon in 1866. Besides being principal of the Mission School and on the Trincomalce Circuit, he was also Army and Navy Chaplain. After 17 years in Ceylon he went to Calcutta to take charge of the Bengal District of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in 1883, and reorganised the work there. For part of the time practically all the society's work was under his supervision. Mr Brown was also for years honorary secretary of the Bible Society, secretary of the Christian Literature Society, and first president of the Sunday School Union in India.
"He retired in 1901, and for two years was chaplain to the London Garrison. In 1903 he was appointed one of the secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and though he retired from this post in 1912, he remained an active member of the General Committee and of several sub-committees. Soon after his retirement in 1912 he went to live at Upminster, and fostered the growth of a small Methodist church there. During the early years of the War, owing to the lighting restrictions, he had a serious fall, and almost lost his life through loss of blood. But his sound constitution saved him. In 1917 he moved to East Barnet, where there was a small and struggling church. He became minister, and developed the work of the church and Sunday school, for which new buildings have since been erected. His wife, who died in 1925, was a daughter of the Rev. John Kilner, a leading figure in Methodist missionary history. They gave two sons to the missionary cause. One of them, the Rev. H. Milton Brown, died in the Transvaal in 1916. The other, the Rev. A. E. Brown, C.I.E., who is principal of the Bankura College, Bengal.
"The funeral service will be at New Barnet Methodist Church to-morrow, at 2 p.m. and the interment at Islington Cemetery at 3 o'clock."
