Surname: Brown Forename(s): James Pennycook Nationality: Scottish.
Working-class poet. Born in Kincardineshire. Father was a farmer. Worked as a compositor
in Elgin and Aberdeen. Well connected to writers associated with the Aberdeen Magazine. Emigrated to Canada but later returned to Elgin. Died c. 1863. Author of Poetical Ephemeras (1831). Biographical information: Modern Scottish Poets, ninth series, D. H. Edwards, 1886, pp. 79-80. (AC)