Nicholas Brown Sr.
Nicholas Brown, Sr. (July 26, 1729 – May 29, 1791) was a Providence, Rhode Island merchant who co-founded the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, which was renamed Brown University after Brown's son Nicholas Brown, Jr. in 1804. He was born in 1729 to James Brown II and Hope Power Brown.According to Sotheby's a desk-and-bookcase crafted by John Goddard of the Newport tradition and originally owned by Nicholas Brown, Sr. sold in June 1989 for $12,100,000, the highest price ever paid for a piece of American furniture at that date.
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| Birth date | July 26, 1729 |
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| Date of death | May 29, 1791 |
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External resources
- http://brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/documents/SJ_response_to_the_report.pdf
- http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Corporation/downloads/charter-of-brown-university.pdf
- http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=B0410
- http://www.brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/documents/SlaveryAndJustice.pdf
- http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21280696
- http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/cms_misc/media/chapel_and_choir/Ruth_Simmons_Mar07.pdf