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Occupation. poet, author, dramatist. Nationality. Scottish. Alma mater. University of Edinburgh. George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character. He is widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century.
He worked as third assistant director on The House of the Spaniard (1936), and assistant director on Fire Over England (1936). He was production assistant on the first three movies for Mayflower Productions and married Maureen O'Hara briefly (1939-1941). Brown then went to work on The Proud Valley (1939). During World War II, he worked in the ...
George Brown (22 February 1912 – 27 February 1979) was a motorcycle racer, known as " the father of British sprinting". [1] Brown raced a variety of bikes but is most closely associated with the Vincent brand. For a time he worked at Vincent, where he headed up their Experimental department and raced the factory-backed single and V-twin bikes.
Life and work. Brown was born in Portobello, London, in 1930, as one of non-identical twins. His father was a lens maker and his mother had been a waitress. He left school at 16 and initially moved between a number of jobs, including work in the Post Office [clarification needed]. In 1948, he was called up for national service in the Air Force.
A statue of George Brown is installed in Toronto's Queen's Park, in Ontario, Canada. The sculpture was unveiled in 1884. The sculpture was unveiled in 1884. [1]
George Brown (Benedictine) (died 1628), English Benedictine. George Brown (bishop of Liverpool) (1784–1856), English Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool. George Brown (missionary) (1835–1917), English Methodist missionary to Fiji, Samoa, and New Britain, president-general of the Methodist Church of Australasia.
The gardens were severely damaged during Cyclone Tracy in 1974, 89% of all plants were lost. Restoration after the cyclone was led by George Brown, who had worked at the gardens since 1969 and served as curator from 1971 to 1990, and who was Lord Mayor of Darwin from 1992 until 2002. The gardens were renamed in 2002 to recognize George Brown's ...
George Edward Brown Jr. (March 6, 1920 – July 15, 1999) was an American Democratic politician from California. He represented suburban portions of Los Angeles County in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1971 and parts of the Inland Empire region from 1973 until his death in 1999.