Geoffrey Houghton-Brown

Geoffrey Alban Michael Houghton Brown (12 April 1903 - 3 February 1993) was an artist and connoisseur.

Biography

Geoffrey Alban Michael Houghton Brown was born in Wimbledon on 12 April 1903.[1]

During World War II, considered unfit for service, he volunteered to extinguish fires following the bombings on the roof of Westminster Abbey.[1]

In 1947 he bought Winslow Hall, a Grade I building that was under threat of demolition. It became an antiques showroom, and was sold again in 1959.[2] Other than Winslow Hall, he owned Clouds House, Oving Hall, and Felix Hall.[1]

Other than collector of 18th century furniture, Houghton Brown was a painter of religious pictures in the Byzantine- Cubist style and had a studio in Tottenham Court Road. He was friend, and follower, of Roy de Maistre. He exhibited at the Ebury Street gallery, "Sacred Abstract Art".[1]

He edited an apologia of Nostradamus.[1]

He was also friends with Father Martin D'Arcy, Oliver Messel and James Lees-Milne. His lifelong companion was Ronald Fleming (1896 - 1968).[3][1]

Geoffrey Houghton-Brown died in Kingston upon Thames on 3 February 1993.[1]

References
  1. LEES-MILNE, JAMES (1993). "Obituary: Geoffrey Houghton Brown". The Independent. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. Penny Churchill (10 May 2007). "For Sale: Winslow Hall". Country Life.
  3. Lees-Milne, James; Bloch, Michael (2011). Diaries, 1984-1997. Hachette UK. p. 195. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
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