THE PETERITE Vol. LIV
FEBRUARY, 1962
No. 359
OBITUARY COLONEL MAURICE BROWNE, C.B.E., M.C., D.L., J.P. Colonel Maurice Browne died on 21st December, 1961. He was the son of Brigadier General E. S. Browne, V.C., C.B., and came to St. Peter's in September, 1901, at the age of 16; he was a Monitor and a member of the Rugby XV and left in 1903. Two years later he joined the Middlesex Regiment as a subaltern. From then on the Regiment was his life. He was awarded the Military Cross as Adjutant of the 1st Battalion in 1914, commanded the 2nd Battalion from 1932 to 1935, returned in 1939 to command the Depot at Mill Hill and, finally, held the honoured post of Colonel of the Regiment for 10 years from 1942, after which he was made a C.B.E. "for services rendered to the Regiment". Even after this Colonel Browne continued to live in Inglis Barracks, where his room had assumed the appearance of a Regimental Museum. In an Obituary in the "Sunday Times" Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks, whose first posting as a subaltern was to a company commanded by Captain Maurice Browne, described him as "the best regimental officer I have ever met".
T. C. NEWTON T. C. Newton was at St. Peter's from 1894 to 1902. He was Captain of Cricket and in the Rugby XV, and he also edited "The Peterite". In 1902 he won a Hastings Exhibition in Classics at Queen's College, Oxford, and afterwards joined the Nigerian Civil Service. A great friend, who used to watch cricket at Lord's with Newton, has sent a donation of ten guineas to the Appeal Fund in his memory.
R. F. RUSSELL
R. F. Russell (1891-97) played Rugby for England against New Zealand
in 1906; he also played 13 times for Yorkshire in the years 1899-1901, on one occasion declining an invitation to play for Cambridge because of a prior engagement for Yorkshire.
E. K. WOOD After leaving St. Peter's in 1917 E. K. Wood joined the Indian Army and rose to the rank of Colonel in the Gurkhas. After leaving the Army he was House Governor of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Great Portland Street, London.
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