Ralph Kilner Brown
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Representing  England
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| British Empire Games | ||
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1934 London | 440 yd hurdles |
Sir Ralph Kilner Brown, OBE, TD, DL (28 August 1909 – 15 June 2003), was a British hurdling athlete, Liberal Party politician and judge.
He was born in Calcutta, the son of Rev. A. E. Brown. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bishop Vesey's Grammar School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
He married, in 1943, Cynthia Rosemary Breffit. They had one son and two daughters.
He was a British 440 yards hurdles champion. At the 1934 Empire Games he won the bronze medal in the 440 yards hurdles event. He missed the 1936 Summer Olympics due to injury. His brother Godfrey and sister Audrey both won medals.
In 1934 he was Called to the Bar by Middle Temple and worked at the chambers of Donald Finnemore.
He was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps in March 1939 and served on Field Marshal Montgomery's staff planning the Normandy landings.
He became a High Court judge in 1970 and served until 1985.
At Cambridge University he was the runner-up for the Presidency of the Cambridge Union and president of the University Liberal Club, 1931-2. He had become noticed already through his many impassioned speeches as a Young Liberal in opposition to appeasement.
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