Джон Браун Патон: Шотланд дін қызметкері, ғалым және жазушы

Scottish Congregationalist minister, college head and author

John Brown Paton (1830–1911) was a Scottish Congregationalist minister, college head and author.

Born 17 December 1830 at Galston, East Ayrshire, Paton was the son of Alexander Paton by his wife Mary, daughter of Andrew Brown of Newmilns, both of the United Secession Church; he claimed descent from Covenanters, on his father's side from John Paton (d. 1684), on his mother's from John Brown (1627?–1685). His father ultimately joined the Congregationalists. From Loudoun parish school, Paton went on in 1838 to the tuition of his maternal uncle Andrew Morton Brown, D. D., Congregational minister, then at Poole, Dorset. In 1844 Paton was at Kilmarnock, where he met Alexander Russel, and came into the orbit of James Morison. Returning in 1844 to his uncle, now at Cheltenham, Paton encountered a decisive influence in Henry Rogers. The Boys' and Girls' League of Honour (1906). Paton was president of the Licensing Laws Information Bureau (1898 1902), and vice president of the British Institute for Social Service (1904), and of the British and Foreign Bible Society (1907). Paton with Robert William Dale edited (1858–61) The Eclectic Review. With Frederick Smeeton Williams, his colleague, he edited the "Home Mission Tract Series" (1865). He was a consulting editor (1882 8) of the Contemporary Review, to which, at his request, Lightfoot contributed (1874–7) his articles on Supernatural Religion. With Percy William Bunting, and Alfred Ernest Garvie, he edited a series of papers Christ and Civilisation (1910), his last work.

Paton's publications include The Two fold Alternative (3rd ed., 1900), The Inner Mission of the Church (new ed., 1900), and two volumes of collected essays. He was a constant contributor to literary reviews.

His son, John Lewis Paton (1863 1946), who headed the Cambridge classical tripos in 1886, became High Master of Manchester Grammar School in 1903.