Introduction to Daniel Gunn Brown

Rev. Daniel Gunn Brown:
Born: January 5th 1808
Died: May 25th 1892

Presbyterian Minister of Newtownhamilton 

 Creggan Graveyard in Co Armagh is famous for long list of illustrious figures one being Rev Gunn Browne a Grand old name of Gentleman

 Some of pictures depicting of the notorious unjust evictions that took place in mid 1800s Ireland.
It is quoted in the journal Agrarian Disturbances around Crossmaglen - Part X The Shooting of Meredith Chambre that "Rev. Daniel Gunn Brown, The Presbyterian Minister of Newtownhamilton, once described them as "exterminators" In view of this, and taken into account the fact that the people were then literally struggling to keep body and soul together. It is not surprising that these tithe- collectors, landlords, land agents and land grabbers were murdered." (P224)
 

 The distress that resulted from the famine lead almost inevitability to a recrudescence of agrarian crime this led to a new kind of action on the part of tenantry which was to threaten the whole basis of the land lord power. This movement led to the development of the Ulster Tenants Rights Association. 

Presbyterian Ministers took a leading part in its affairs and resolved to petition Parliament for legislation that would secure the tenant farmers of Ulster in all its integrity.








Sources

The Making of Modern Ireland 1603 - 1923, J.C Beckett, 1981, Queens University, Belfast
Agrarian Disturbances around Crossmaglen-Part X The Shooting of Meredith Chambre, Thomas Mckeown and Kevin McMahon, Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, vol 19, (2003), pp. 206-224

Image Sources :
http://www.thesilverbowl.com/biographies/BrowneDanielGunn_JacksonMargaret.htm
http://creggan.armagh.anglican.org/first.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rosdavies/WORDS/Famine.h
http://www.maggieblanck.com/Mayopages/LandIssues.html
http://www.maggieblanck.com/Mayopages/ImagesM09/Nov1309M1.jpg