Rev James Brotherston Laughton

1814 - 1883  (68 years)

• Name	James Brotherston Laughton
  Title	Rev
  Birth	25 Sep 1814	Denton Hall, Nether Denton, Cumberland
  Christening	25 Sep 1814	Nether Denton, Cumberland
  Gender	Male
  Published	1843	IOM
  	A new Historical, Topographical, and Parochial Guide to the Isle of Man
  Travel	5 Jun 1843	Sydney, NSW
  	Emigrated to Australia 1843 on Hereford. Dep Liverpool 5th June, Arr Sydney 17th October 1843
  	Address: http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/12411431
  Address	21 Oct 1843	Sydney, NSW
  	1 Wentworth Place, Millers Point
  	Cause: Ref: Classified advert in Sydney Morning Herald
  Occupation	1845	Sydney College   [1]
  	Vice Head
  	Address: Sydney, NSW Australia
  Address	1846	Kent St North (sydney?) Australia
  	Listed as schoolmaster, filing for insolvency https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230143988
  Occupation	1849	Carcoar, NSW
  	to 1851, Minister
  Event	20 Sept 1850	Bathurst NSW
  	Ordained Presbyterian Minister See: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/62214826?searchTerm=james%20laughton%20&searchLimits=l-textSearchScope=*ignore*|*ignore*|||fromdd=01|||frommm=04|||fromyyyy=1850|||todd=31|||tomm=12|||toyyyy=1852|||l-word=*ignore*|*ignore*
  Occupation	1851	Paterson, NSW
  	to 1854, Minister
  Event	1854	East Maitland, NSW
  	Moderator of Synod meeting
  Occupation	1854	Bathurst, NSW, Australia
  	Minister to 1865 - a minister of ability, learning and pulpit power of a high quality
  Occupation	1864	Western Post & Mudgee Newspaper 8 March, 1864
  	Ministers of Religion in Receipt of Stipends or Allowances : J B Laughton £150
  Occupation	1866	Parramatta, NSW, Australia
  	to 1876, Minister
  Address	1 Oct 1868	Parramatta, NSW
  	St Andrew's Manse
  Published	1869
  	Christ the Counselor or Practical Teaching for an Age of Progress: Being an Exposition of Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount
  Travel	28 Jun 1871	Sydney, Australia
  	Listed as Rev JB Laughton on passenger list of Lady Young from Brisbane
  Address	1872	Parramatta, NSW, Australia
  	Hunter St
  Event	1872	Parramatta, NSW, Australia
  	Jane Laughton dies
  Occupation	1877	Orange, NSW
  	to 1883, Minister
  Travel	24 Jul 1877	Sydney, Australia
  	On passenger list from Brisbane as Rev JB Laughton
  Death	23 May 1883	Paddington NSW   [2]
  Burial	25 May 1883	Rookwood Necropolis   [2]
  Person ID	I43	Bell
  Last Modified	24 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	James Laughton,   b. 25 Dec 1777, Orkney d. 5 Dec 1859, Liverpool (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Ann Potts,   b. 17 Jun 1793, Carlisle, Cumberland, England d. 10 Apr 1865 (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1813
  Family ID	F10	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Jane Looney,   b. 1804, Maughold, Isle Of Man d. 10 Dec 1872, Parramatta, NSW, Australia (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	3 Apr 1843	Braddan, Isle of Man
  Children	1. Marianne Frances Jane [Looney?],   b. Abt 1828, Ramsay, Isle of Man d. 12 Aug 1914, Kogarah, NSW (Age 86 years)  [Father: Adopted]  [Mother: Birth]
  Family ID	F52	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2010

  
  

  Family 2	Sarah Anne Blain,   b. 1838/9, Co Antrim, Ireland d. 1901?, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
  Marriage	5 Aug 1873	Woollahra, NSW
  Family ID	F84	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jan 2006

  
  

• Sources

  [S5] Australian Dictionary of Biography, entry for Braim, Thomas Henry (1814 - 1891). Frustrated, Braim went to Melbourne in the Thomas Crisp in March 1841. After an abortive attempt to open a grammar school in the Wesleyan Chapel, Swanston Street, he went to Sydney in the Sophia Pate with his wife and three children, intending to apply for the headmastership of Sydney College, where W. T. Cape was due to retire in December. In an election which excited much public interest Braim, with youth on his side, testimonials from Broughton, Gell and Rev. J. B. Naylor and support from the Australian, defeated John Rennie (M.A., Edinburgh), proprietor of the Collegiate High School in Sydney. Braim took up his post in January 1842. Drawing on Arnold for his corporate practice, on Pestalozzi for his pedagogics and on the English middle-class schools for his curricula, he introduced an enlightened school policy that won general acclaim. But in three years the enrolment fell from 267 to 60 pupils. His request for leave to visit England was granted by the trustees but with no guarantee that he would be reappointed on his return. In October 1845 he was readmitted to St John's College, Cambridge, to complete his divinity studies. Back in Sydney late in 1846 he found that he had lost the confidence of the trustees. The decline in enrolment was laid to his charge, perhaps unfairly in view of economic conditions, and it was publicly alleged that he had entered irregularly into an agreement with James B. Laughton, B.A., his second master and locum tenens, by which he would resume the headmastership. When the trustees named David Patterson as headmaster, Braim decided to move, on the advice of his brother Edwin, to Belfast (Port Fairy), Victoria. [S4] NSW BMD Register (Reliability: 3).