Fred Brown
Personal information
Full name Frederick Elphinstone Brown
Date of birth (1896-01-30)30 January 1896
Place of birth Hobart, Tasmania
Date of death 18 December 1971(1971-12-18) (aged 75)
Place of death Caulfield, Victoria
Original team(s) Caulfield
Height 185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 86 kg (190 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1922–1924 Hawthorn (VFA) 37 (7)[1]
1925–1926 Hawthorn 04 (0)
Total 41 (7)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1926.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Frederick Elphinstone Brown (30 January 1896 – 18 December 1971) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

Family

The son of James Brown (1870–1899)[3] and Janet Brown (1872–1959), nee West, Frederick Elphinstone Brown was born at Hobart on 30 January 1896.

Brown married Lillian Edna Daisy Shillinglaw on 2 September 1916 at St Matthew's Anglican Church in Prahran. Brown and Shillinglaw divorced in 1935[4] and Brown married Lila Grace Cain, nee Allday, (1905–1986) in 1936.

World War I

Brown enlisted to serve in World War I in February 1917, seeing action in France before returning to Australia in 1919.[5]

Football

After playing with Caulfield Football Club, Brown joined Hawthorn at the start of the 1922 VFA season[6] and he played four games in Hawthorn's first two seasons in the VFL.

Death

Fred Brown died at Caulfield on 18 December 1971 and is burled at Brighton General Cemetery.[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Gordon, Harry & Michael. One For All: the story of the Hawthorn Football Club. ISBN 978-1-921332-83-8.
  2. ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  3. ↑ "FATAL STREET QUARREL". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 19, 230. New South Wales, Australia. 31 October 1899. p. 8.
  4. ↑ Victorian Divorce Records. North Melbourne, Victoria: Public Records Office of Victoria. 1940.
  5. ↑ "Discovering Anzacs: Frederick Elphinstone Brown". National Archives of Australia.
  6. ↑ "GEELONG'S FIRST GAME". The Argus. Melbourne. 8 May 1922. p. 7.
  7. ↑ "Frederick Elphinstone Brown". Find a Grave.
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