Yeats Brown, Timothy

14. July 1789 – 3. February 1858

: Yeates

English banker; he became the British consul in Genoa in 1840.

Timothy Yeats Brown was a friend and host of Italian liberals such as Federico Confalonieri, Ugo Foscolo und Luigi Porro Lambertenghi. Johann Conrad Fischer visited Brown in London in 1814. They had previously become acquainted in Switzerland “at the foot of the hill between Zurich and Schaffhausen”. Brown’s banking establishment Brown, Cobb & Co. was located at 66 Lombard Street. In 1812, he married Mary Ann Goldsmid.

Traveljournal 1814

Beattie, Simon: Anglo-German Cultural Relations. Bookseller Simon Beattie, London: 2020. S. 131 (Onlineressource, Stand 21.2.2023).
Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.
Henderson, William O.: Johann Conrad Fischer and his Diary of Industrial England 1814–1851. London 1966, S. 98, 165.
The Post Office Annual Directory, 15. Edition, London 1814 (Hathi Trust Digital Library, Stand 21.2.2023).

Cite as: Yeats Brown, Timothy. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/names/gfa-actors-7539, viewed on 6 June 2026.