High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles Armitage Brown (1787–1842) was born in Lambeth (London) on 14 April 1787. He was a very close friend of the poet John Keats, as well as being a friend of artist Joseph Severn, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Walter Savage Landor and Edward John Trelawny. He was the father of Charles (Carlino) Brown, a pioneer and politician of New Plymouth, New Zealand.