Thomas Graham Brown

Thomas Graham Brown FRS (1882–1965) (usually known as T. Graham Brown) was a Scottish mountaineer and physiologist.

Life and family

Graham Brown was born in Edinburgh 1882; his father – Dr John Joseph Graham Brown – was a President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. T. Graham Brown read science and medicine at the University of Edinburgh in the city before moving to Glasgow and then Liverpool. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I; after the war he continued his work on the physiology of the nervous system, particularly reflex movements and posture, and in 1920 he accepted the Chair in Physiology at the University of Wales at Cardiff. In 1927 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Alpinism

The east or Brenva face of Mont Blanc was the scene of his most famous first ascents, his three new routes – the Sentinelle Rouge, Route Major and the Pear Buttress – constituting "the most important new routes made by British climbers in the Alps in the inter-war years." In an article in the Alpine Journal, Graham Brown wrote

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Thomas Graham (apothecary)

Thomas Graham (c. 1666 - 14 May 1733) was apothecary to King George I and George II, and was apothecary general to the British army.

Daniel served his apprenticeship in Scotland, from which country he hailed, and was admitted as a "foreign brother" of the Society of Apothecaries on 14 September 1698.

His son was Daniel Graham (c. 1695 - 1788) who was apothecary to King George II, King George III and Chelsea College Hospital.

Thomas died at his home in Pall Mall in London and was buried at St. Mary's Church, Harrow, where a wall plaque commemorates him and his wife Anne.

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Thomas Graham (lawyer)

Sir Thomas Lynedoch Graham KC (1860–May 1940) was a South African judge and politician.

Graham was born in Grahamstown, Cape Colony, which had been founded by his ancestor, Colonel John Graham, in 1812. He was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and Clare College, Cambridge and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1885.

Returning to South Africa, he became an advocate of the Supreme Court of Cape Colony. In 1891 he won the South African Doubles Lawn Tennis Championship. In 1898 he took silk and was elected to the Cape Colony Legislative Council, the Upper House of the Parliament of Cape Colony. Soon afterwards he was appointed Attorney-General in Sir Gordon Sprigg's third government. However, in June 1898 a vote of no confidence was passed in the government, which resigned.

Two years later, Sprigg was back in government, with Graham as Colonial Secretary. In 1902 he became Attorney-General again and from June to August he acted as Prime Minister while Sprigg attended the Coronation of King Edward VII in London.

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Graham Brown (footballer, born 1950)

Graham Frederick Brown (born 5 November 1950) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Leicester City and in non-League football for Burton Albion.

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Graham Brown (English cricketer)

Graham Elliott Brown (born 11 October 1966) is a former English cricketer. Brown was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Balham, London.

Brown made his first-class debut for Surrey against Kent at The Oval in the 1986 County Championship. He made nine further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against the Sri Lankans in 1988. In his ten first-class appearances, he scored 59 runs at an average of 19.66, with a high score of 13 not out. Behind the stumps he took 19 catches and made two stumpings. His appearances for Surrey were limited by the presence of England wicket-keeper Alec Stewart in the Surrey side, with Brown making his occasional appearances when Stewart was on international duty.

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