ABSTRACT
The INVESTIGATOR (18201824) was a quarterly magazine — a new breed of journal that sprang up (and died) in the early 1820’s. The Investigator carried the names of its three editors on the masthead, and since the Rev. William Bengo Collyer (1782-1854), the Rev. Thomas Raffles (1788-1863), and James Baldwin Brown (1785-1843) all appear in the DNB, it is not difficult to ascertain the journal’s perspective. All three editors were Con-gregationalists. Though Brown was a lawyer, his son James Baldwin Brown, the Younger, became a noted Congregational divine and a liberal theologian. Brown himself was a biographer of John Howard, the prison reformer.
