In 1874 John Macmillan Brown was selected as professor of classics and English, one of three foundation chairs at the newly-established Canterbury College in Christchurch. He gave up teaching classics in 1879 (on the appointment of the first professor in classics) and taught history and political economy.
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University of Canterbury, Art Collection
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UC/MBL/392
Oil painting by Archibald Nicoll
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