A brief biography of Arthur Brown by Graham Stevenson additions and corrections welcomed: info@grahamstevenson.me.uk Arthur Frederick James Brown was born on November 30th 1914 in Cardiff. He went from Barry grammar school in 1932 […]
Alan Brown Alan Brown was one of three East End of London brothers who put their talents at the disposal of the Morning Star and its predecessor the Daily Worker. His brothers were Frank (see […]
Donovan Brown Through a series of chance encounters he became involved with socialist ideals which took him by way of Ruskin College, Oxford, to the Soviet Union, whence his career took off as a journalist. […]
Norman Brown Born into a left-wing family in Wigan, Norman Brown was drawn down south in search of employment, which he eventually obtained at Pressed Steel in Oxford. Like so depressed areas, he was […]
Nora and E R Brown Brown was dismissed from Blackburn Grammar School, as he put it in `The New Leader’ of 23rd July 1926, “simply for being a Communist. A few months ago a […]
Sid Brown Sid was one of three Brown brothers who worked at the Morning Star. He shared his later ego of `Eccles’, the staff cartoonist for the paper and its predecessor, with his twin, […]
Lilian Brown Born in August 1916, Lilian was one of nine children of a cabinet maker, she was brought up in extreme poverty in London. Her father was a conscientious objector in the First […]
Harry Brown Brown was a Coventry Communist shop steward, prominent in the city during the Second World War. The famous air raid on the city, which came on the evening of 14th November 1940, saw […]
Frank Brown Better known with his twin brother, Sid Brown (see separate entry) as one half of the cartoon duo that formed “Eccles”, the staff cartoonist for the Daily Worker and later Morning Star, Frank […]
George Brown George’s parents, Frances Brown and Mary Lackey, migrated from Kilkenny to Manchester in the closing years of the 19th century and married there in May 1897. The fourth child in the family, like […]
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