George James Cowley-Brown

George James Cowley-Brown, M.A. (1833– ? ) was an Anglican clergyman and author who served in both the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church.

The eldest of George Francis Cowley-Brown, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1854 and a Master of Arts degree in 1857.

He was ordained in the Anglican ministry as a deacon in 1855 and a priest in 1858. He served as a curate at Bladon-cum-Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 1855–1867; during which time he became domestic chaplain to the Duke of Marlborough in 1858. His next three appointments were Rector of Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, 1867–1874; Rector of Buckhorn-Weston, Dorset, 1874–77; and Rector of St Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1877–83. He became Rector of St John's, Edinburgh in 1883 and a canon of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh in 1898. He retired in 1909. He lived at 9 Grosvenor Street in the western part of the city.

He married and had two sons: Horace Wyndham Cowley-Brown and John Stapleton Cowley-Brown, who both became authors.

He published a number of works:

• Lectures on the Gospel according to St. John (1863)
• A Short Apology for the Book of Common Prayer (1873)
• Daily Lessons on the Life of Our Lord, two volumes (1880)
• Prayers for a Household from Old Divines (1st edition 1881; 2nd edition 1897; 3rd edition 1907)
• Some Reason for Believing Christianity to be True (1897)
• Via Media (reprinted from the National Review) (1898)
• Verselets and Versions (1911)

• Bertie 2000, Scottish Episcopal Clergy, p. 221.