Stephen Campbell Brown

For similarly named people, see Stephen Brown (disambiguation).

Stephen Campbell Brown (21 October 1829 – 16 October 1882) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Sydney to merchant John Brown and Frances Helen Watson. He was a solicitor's clerk, qualifying as a solicitor in 1852. In 1860 he married Emma Booth Jones; a second marriage on 20 August 1870 was to Jane Garrett.^[1]

In 1864 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Newtown, holding the seat without any serious challenges until 1881.^[2] On 14 November 1881 he accepted as Postmaster-General in the third Parkes ministry and the following day resigned from the assembly to be appointed to the Legislative Council.^[3] He became embroiled in a dispute with the Sydney newspapers about how much they were charged for telegrams and resigned as Postmaster-General on 22 August 1882.^[1]

He died in Sydney on 16 October 1882(1882-10-16) (aged 52), survived by four children from his first marriage, his second wife Jane and three of their children.^[1]