Fred Brown | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Frederick Elphinstone Brown | ||
Date of birth | 30 January 1896 | ||
Place of birth | Hobart, Tasmania | ||
Date of death | 18 December 1971 | (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 | 4 (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]
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.
Brown enlisted to serve in World War I in February 1917, seeing action in France before returning to Australia in 1919.[5]
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.
Fred Brown died at Caulfield on 18 December 1971 and is burled at Brighton General Cemetery.[7]