BROWN, John Coggin. West Auckland, co. Durham ?.10.1884 — 23.6.1962. British Geologist in India and Burma. Son of George Richard Brown and Eliza Bedlington Coggin. Educated at King James I School and Armstrong College of the University of Durham. Graduated 1904 in geology and chemistry. M.Sc. 1911 Durham. In 1905 to India as Assistant Superintendent in the Geological Survey of India. Worked in Western Himalaya, Northern Shan States (Burma) and Yunnan (China). From 1913 Curator in Geological Survey and Lecturer at Presidency College and Calcutta University. During WW I worked as Mine Inspector in Burma, 1919-21 Mineral Advisor in London, 1922-32 Superintendent of the Burma Party of the Geological Survey of India, in Calcutta. In retirement lived in Surrey. O.B.E. 1922. Dr.Sc. He collaborated with Zoological Survey of India collecting specimens and acted as Anthropological Secretary of A.S.B. Married 1913 Mary Braithwaite.
Publications: Catalogue Raisonne of the Prehistoric Antiquities in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 155 p. 10 pl. Simla 1917.
– Books and articles on geology and mineralogy.
Sources: nmrs.org.uk/resources/obituaries-of-members/b/john-coggin-brown/; parents and wife in ancestry.com; Wikipedia.
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