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Huntly Gordon Stuart Brown

2^nd December 1889 - 9^th March 1915

Huntly Gordon Stuart Brown, the fifth son and seventh and final child of Peter Stuart Brown and Elizabeth Chapman, was born on 2^nd December 1889 at 11^h 55^m pm, at Braeside Avenue, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire.

Huntly died serving king and country in the Great War.

The High School of Glasgow Book of Service and Rembrance contains a brief biographical sketch (p. 27):

PRIVATE HUNTLY GORDON STUART BROWN, 9^th Highland Light Infantry, 9^th March, 1915.
Private Stuart Brown died on 9^th March, 1915, at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow. On leaving school he entered the Clan Line Office, and was there for four years. He was then appointed cashier to the Empire Aluminium Co., Ltd., with which firm he remained till the outbreak of war. He had not been a Territorial, or received any military training, but he at once joined the 9^th H.L.I. “A” Company, and after three months’ training at Dunfermline, went with his regiment to France, and was in the trenches early in December. On the 7^th of January, 1915, near La Bethune, he was wounded by a gun shot through the forehead, above the right temple. When he reached the base hospital at Boulogne, the broken bones were extracted from the wound, and he seemed to recover. He was transferred to Bristol, and thence to Glasgow, but notwithstanding every possible attention, he died on 9^th March. He was the youngest son of Mr. Stuart Brown, Auchengrange, Lochwinnoch.

Huntly Gordon Stuart Brown, mercantile cashier, private 9^th Batt. H. L. S. Glasgow Highlanders (single), died on 9^th March 1915 at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow. His usual residence was Auchengrange, Lochwinnoch. He was 25 years of age. The causes of death of death were a gunshot wound to the head, (?) of bone and suppuration of the brain, as certified by Alexander H. Edwards, Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. The informant on the same day at Glasgow was P. Stuart Brown, father of the deceased, entered as present.

There is some confusion over the date of death; the above article, corroborated by the date engraved on his grave stone give it as the 9^th and since the death certificate confirms these sources, it is taken as settling the issue. The 7^th, however, is favoured by the Inventory of Huntly’s moveable or personal estate, in which connection his brother, Charles Stuart Brown, deponed to it under oath. This latter source confirms the place of death as Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, and again designates the deceased ‘Huntly Gordon Stuart Brown, late of Auchengrange, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Private in the 9^th Battalion Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Highlanders)’.

Huntly’s death was reported in the Evening Times on (Friday) 12^th March 1915, at p. 2, in which the date was again given as the 7^th:

GLASGOW HIGHLANDER’S DEATH.
Private Huntly Gordon Stuart-Brown, of the Glasgow Highlanders, who was wounded near La Bethune on 7^th January, and who, as we announced on Wednesday, has succumbed to his injuries in Stobhill Hospital, was a Glasgow High School boy. He was the son of Mr P. Stuart-Brown, Auchengrange, Lochwinnoch, and was a descendent of Charles Gordon of Terpersey, Aberdeenshire, who fought at Culloden. Private Stuart-Brown has given his life for a greater cause than his ancestor, who was executed at Carlisle in 1746 for his participation in the Jacobite rebellion. Private Brown’s funeral takes place at Lochwinnoch to-morrow.

Inventory

Huntly Gordon Stuart Brown died intestate, leaving a total estate of Ł80 19/7d, composed entirely of moveable or personal property situated in Scotland. (Wills and testaments Reference SC58/42/84, Paisley Sheriff Court, pp. 145-48)

This was made up of thirty Ł1 shares in the Acme Tea Chest Co. Ltd., nominally valued at Ł1, but actually worth 16/-, Ł30; ‘Sum in Dividend Warrant of the said Company in favor of the deceased, dated 21^st January 1915, being dividend on said shares for year to 31^st July, 1912’, Ł1 13/4d; ditto, ‘dated 27^th February 1915, being dividend on said shares for two years to 31^st July 1914’, Ł3 6/4d; ditto, ‘dated 29^th April 1915, being dividend on said shares for half-year to 31^st January 1915’, 16/6d; ditto, ‘dated 30^th October 1915, being dividend on said shares for half-year to 31^st July 1915’, 15/9d.

There were also thirty-five ordinary Ł1 shares; ‘Sum in Dividend Warrant of the said Company in favor of the deceased, dated 10^th June, 1915, being interim dividend on said Ordinary Shares’, 16/1d; ditto, ‘dated 1^st December 1915, being final dividend on said Ordinary Shares for year ending 31^st July, 1915’, Ł2 6/8d.

There was one final item, the only one not relating to shares in the Acme Tea Chest Co. Ltd., ‘Balance of Salary due to deceased by the Acme Tea Chest Co. Ltd., Glasgow’, Ł6 4/11d.

These sums in aggregate yield a ‘Gross Moveable Estate in Scotland’ of Ł80 19/7d.

At Glasgow on 21^st January 1916, Charles Stuart Brown appeared in the presence of ‘John Orr, Esquire, One of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of the City of Glasgow’ and on being solemnly sworn and examined, deponed to the usual matters.

At Paisley on the 25^th, Brownlie, Watson & Beckett, writers, of 225, West George Street, Glasgow, presented the Inventory for Registration.

William Beckett, writer, and William McGhie, also of 225, West George Street, Glasgow, both compeared and, on being solemnly sworn and examined, deponed to knowing Charles Stuart Brown as the brother of the deceased.