Antony Barrington Brown
Antony Barrington Brown (13 July 1927 – 24 January 2012) was a designer, photographer and explorer.
His photograph of Watson and Crick soon after they had discovered the structure of DNA, later became the iconic image of the pair. He was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.[1]
He worked at Dexion in the mid-1950s and designed a successful system called Speedframe.
In 1955-6 Barrington Brown was part of the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, a 32,000-mile trip overland from Hyde Park Corner to Singapore, and back. The trip was recorded in the book First Overland: London-Singapore by Land Rover by Tim Slessor.
He was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford, and following National Service, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Barrington Brown and his wife Althea Wynne were killed in a car accident near their home at Upton Lovell, Wiltshire in January 2012.[2][1][3]
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- ↑ Althea Wynne (obituary) in The Daily Telegraph dated 14 February 2012, online at telegraph.co.uk, accessed 3 June 2012
- ↑ Daily Telegraph, 14 February 2012. Obituary of Antony Barrington Brown.
