Fred Brown | |
Fullname: | Frederick Elphinstone Brown |
Birth Date: | 30 January 1896 |
Birth Place: | Hobart, Tasmania |
Death Place: | Caulfield, Victoria |
Originalteam: | Caulfield |
Height: | 185 cm |
Weight: | 86 kg |
Guernsey: | 27 |
Statsend: | 1926 |
Years1: | 1922–1924 |
Club1: | (VFA) |
Games Goals1: | 37 (7)[1] |
Years2: | 1925–1926 |
Games Goals2: | 4 (0) |
Games Goalstotal: | 41 (7) |
Frederick Elphinstone Brown (30 January 1896 – 18 December 1971) was an Australian rules footballer who played with 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]