# Brown Chamberlin

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'''Brown Chamberlin''' (March 26, 1827 – July 13, 1897) was a [Quebec](/source/Quebec) lawyer, publisher and political figure. He was a [Conservative](/source/Conservative_Party_of_Canada_(historical)) member of the [House of Commons of Canada](/source/House_of_Commons_of_Canada) representing [Missisquoi](/source/Missisquoi_(federal_electoral_district)) from 1867 to 1870.<ref name="parl">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=4530|nolist=yes}}</ref>

He was born in [Frelighsburg](/source/Frelighsburg%2C_Quebec), [Lower Canada](/source/Lower_Canada) in 1827, the son of Brown Chamberlin,<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada}}</ref> a doctor. He studied at [McGill College](/source/McGill_University) and was called to the bar in 1850. Chamberlin worked as a journalist and was publisher of the ''[Montreal Gazette](/source/The_Gazette_(Montreal))'' from 1853 to 1867. He later sold the paper to Richard and [Thomas White](/source/Thomas_White_(Canadian_politician)). He resigned his seat in the House of Commons when he was named [Queen's Printer](/source/Queen's_Printer_for_Canada) in [Ottawa](/source/Ottawa) in 1870;<ref name="morgan"/> Chamberlin held this post until 1891.<ref name="johnson"/> He served as lieutenant-colonel in the local militia and was named a companion of the [Order of St Michael and St George](/source/Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George) for his role in repelling [Fenian raiders](/source/Fenian_raids) at [Eccles Hill](/source/Battle_of_Eccles_Hill). He was also a [Freemason](/source/Freemason), and a member of Civil Service Lodge No. 148, in Ottawa.<ref name="morgan">{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |title=The Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Handbook of Canadian Biography |date=1898 |publisher=William Briggs |location=Toronto |edition=first |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.02221}}</ref> Chamberlin died in [Lakefield, Ontario](/source/Lakefield%2C_Ontario) at the age of 70.<ref name="johnson"/>

==Family==
[[File:Mrs Brown Chamberlan.jpg|thumb|Mrs Agnes Chamberlan by [William James Topley](/source/William_James_Topley)]]
In 1870, Brown Chamberlin married [Agnes Dunbar FitzGibbon](/source/Agnes_Dunbar_Moodie_Fitzgibbon), daughter of Sheriff Moodle, of Belleville and [Susanna Moodie](/source/Susanna_Moodie). The couple had one daughter, Mrs. Badgley. Agnes had married her first husband, Charles FitzGibbon, Barrister-at-law, in 1850 and survived him. By her first husband Mrs. Chamberlin had one son and three daughters. Her daughter Miss Mary Agnes FitzGibbon, wrote a biography of her grandfather, Colonel [James FitzGibbon](/source/James_FitzGibbon), entitled "A Veteran of 1812."<ref name="FitzGibbon 1898">{{cite book |last=FitzGibbon |first=Mary Agnes |title=A Veteran of 1812: The Life of James FitzGibbon |publisher=W. Briggs |series=Collection Canadiana de Louis Melzack |year=1898 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hIRBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP1}}</ref>

Mrs. Chamberlin was an artist and the author of ''Canadian Wildflowers'' (1867) and other works. She drew on the lithographing stone the set of Canadian Fungi (edible) published by the [Geological Survey of Canada](/source/Geological_Survey_of_Canada). She illustrated Mrs. Traill's "Studies of Plant Life".<ref name="Traill Fitzgibbon 1885">{{cite book |last=Traill |first=C.P.S. |last2=Fitzgibbon |first2=A. |title=Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Or, Gleanings from Forest, Lake and Plain |publisher=A.S. Woodburn |year=1885 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K7dFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP1}}</ref> Her drawings were exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |page=53 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/53}}</ref>

== Archives ==
There is a [http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=98638&lang=eng Brown Chamberlin fonds (R3030)] at [Library and Archives Canada](/source/Library_and_Archives_Canada).

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