Ambassadors and ministers to foreign countries have included Brown men since the early nineteenth century, among them: Jonathan Russell1791, ambassador to Sweden and Norway; Henry Wheaton1802, minister to Prussia; Christopher Robinson 1825, minister to Peru; George Van Ness Lothrop 1838, minister to Russia; Lewis Richmond 1842, minister to Portugal; Samuel Sullivan Cox 1846, minister to Turkey; James Burrill Angell1849, minister to China and Turkey; John Hay1858, ambassador to Great Britain; John Meredith Read 1858, minister to Greece; Frederick M. Sackett 1890, ambassador to Germany; Leland Howard Littlefield 1892, ambassador to Great Britain; Noble B. Judah ’04, ambassador to Cuba; Ely E. Palmer ’08, ambassador to Afghanistan; Roy Tasco Davis ’10, minister to Guatemala and Costa Rica, and Panama; Warren Randolph Burgess ’12, ambassador to NATO; Dana Gardner Munro ’12, minister to Haiti; Willard L. Beaulac ’20, ambassador to Paraguay, Columbia, Cuba, Chile, and Argentina; John J. Muccio ’21, ambassador to Korea, Iceland, and Guatemala; Will Mercer Cook A.M.’31, ambassador to Niger and Senegal; Clinton E. Knox A.M.’31, ambassador to Dahomey; Thomas J. Watson, Jr. ’37, ambassador to the U.S.S.R.; Taylor G. Belcher ’41, ambassador to Cyprus; William H. Sullivan ’43, ambassador to Laos; and Nathaniel Davis ’46, ambassador to Guatemala.Ambassadors and ministers
By 1846 there were 72 special students enrolled, at which time an attempt was made to attract more students by introducing "The English and Scientific Course," which could be taken for one or for two years.Curriculum
Between 1846 and 1849 22 students had entered the course.Curriculum
The tutors were dismissed in 1846 to save funds, but two years later the senior professors were complaining about the added work and their own inadequate salaries.Faculty
The gates on George Street are the John Nicholas Brown Gate, given in 1903 by his widow, the William Goddard Memorial Gate, given by Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin in 1911 in memory of her father, Chancellor William Goddard 1846, and the Psi Upsilon gate, dedicated by the fraternity at the time of its centennial in 1940.Fence
After graduation from Brown University in 1846, William Goddard went to Europe, and during the Revolution of 1848 he carried secret dispatches from Paris to Rome.Goddard, William
In 1889-90 the Brown University Historical and Economic Association gave two series of public lectures in Manning Hall, presenting such speakers as Woodrow Wilson, Francis Wayland 1846, and Edward Everett Hale.History
The John Carter Brown Library houses a collection of Americana which John Carter Brown 1816 began to collect in 1846 when he purchased a small collection of American books from his brother, Nicholas Brown 1811, who was leaving for Rome where he was to be United States Consul General.John Carter Brown Library
In June 1846, Adoniram Judson married Emily Chubbuck, a poetess who used the name of Fanny Forester, with whom he returned to Rangoon and then to Maulmein.Judson, Adoniram
Although brought up in the Quaker religion by a father who had earlier in life been a Presbyterian, Benjamin Waterhouse never, in the words of William Goddard 1846 "adopted the peculiarities of that quiet and useful sect, nor was he accustomed to unite with them in their religious worship."Waterhouse, Benjamin
His eldest son, Francis Wayland, Jr. 1846, became Dean of the Yale Law School, and his second son, Heman Lincoln Wayland 1849 became president of Franklin College in 1870.Wayland, Francis
The architects tried, but in vain, to incorporate the Powel House, a Victorian mansion at the corner of George and Brown Streets built in 1865 by Thomas Poynton Ives Goddard 1846 into the plan.Wriston Quadrangle