Arthur was born on 29 January 1869 in Tottenham, London. He was the 2nd eldest child of Walter Brown and Amelia Edgcome Richards. The Browns ran a grocers opposite the Tottenham Hotspurs stadium on the High Road and were lifelong members of the local Baptist Church.
In 1895 he graduated in Chemistry from the University of London and went on to have career as an analytical chemist. He held various roles including Gas Examiner to the Enfield and Tottenham Urban Sanitary Councils.
He was married twice, Myra Lucy Brown (no relation) (with whom he had two children) and then Vivien Meryl Baker. He celebrated two silver weddings and outlived them both. On 15 August 1965 he finally passed away at The General Hospital Barnet, aged 96. His cause of death is quite interesting “Congestive cardiac failure and Atherosclerotic mycardioal – death accelerate by fracture of femur following fall in Nursing home, accidental – the family story says he fell out of bed!
not just any family 