Background
The younger son of Hugh A. Brown, a headmaster in Paisley, Walter was educated at Allan Glen"s School and the University of Glasgow (Bachelor of Science Honours Mathematics and Physics 1907. And Bachelor of Science Pure Science 1910).
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Walter Brown
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Education
University of Glasgow.
Career
In 1914 he took up the post of Lecturer in Engineering at Hong Kong University. He was soon promoted to become Professor in Pure and Applied Mathematics, a post he held from 1918 to 1946. He organised study groups in the internment camp, and helped attend to the medical needs of the prisoners.
Returning to Scotland after the war, he taught civil and mechanical engineering at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow (1946-1947), and mathematics at the University of Glasgow (1947-1948).
Membership
Brown became a member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in March 1911. In 1920 he was elected an Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He was President of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society, and a member of the Hong Kong English Association, the Hong Kong Sino-British Association, and the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders.
A member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Brown was captured when Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese, and he was held as a Prisoner of War at Stanley Camp (1941-1945).
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April 14, 1957 (aged 70)