Anthony Montague Browne
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| Born |
Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne 8 May 1923 United Kingdom |
| Died | 1 April 2013 (aged 89) Bucklebury, West Berkshire, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Stowe School |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
| Known for | Private secretary to Sir Winston Churchill |
| Children | Jane Hoare-Temple (born 1953) Justin Welby (born 1956) |
Sir Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne KCMG CBE DFC (8 May 1923 – 1 April 2013) was a British diplomat who was private secretary to Sir Winston Churchill for the last ten years of the latter's life.
Montague Browne was the son of Andrew Duncan Montague Browne (1878–1969), a British army colonel, by his marriage to Violet Evelyn Downes (1883–1969). He was educated in Switzerland, and then at Stowe School where he refused to join the OTC until World War II broke out in September 1939.
In September 1941 Montague Browne went up to Magdalen College, Oxford, but left in spring 1942 to join the Royal Air Force. After learning to fly in a de Havilland Tiger Moth with No. 9 Elementary Flying Training School at RAF Ansty near Coventry, he was sent to train in the United States via Canada. He graduated as a fighter pilot with the US Navy pilots school, and returned to the UK, training to fly the Bristol Beaufighter with the RAF. After assignment to squadrons flying in Egypt, Palestine and Cyprus, he was assigned to 211 Squadron RAF at Chiringa in Arakan, on the Burma-Bengal border. In 1945 he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his skill and valour attacking Imperial Japanese Army lines of communication within occupied Burma. At the end of May 1945 he was promoted a flight lieutenant.
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