Antony Barrington BrownFRPS (13 July 1927 – 24 January 2012) was a British designer, photographer, and explorer. He was known to many colleagues as BB.
In the mid-1950s he worked at Dexion and designed a successful storage system called Speedframe.[2] A member of the Royal Photographic Society from 1951, he became a Fellow in 2003.[1]
Barrington Brown and his wife, the sculptor Althea Wynne, were killed in a car accident near their home at Upton Lovell, Wiltshire in January 2012.[3][2]
^ abcDaily Telegraph, 14 February 2012. Obituary of Antony Barrington Brown.
^Althea Wynne (obituary) in The Daily Telegraph dated 14 February 2012, online at telegraph.co.uk, accessed 3 June 2012
External links
First Overland Newsletter tribute issue for BB
Obituary in Land Rover Owner International
March 11, 2023
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