His brother, Peter Crittle, played 15 times for the Australian national rugby union team and was later a barrister.
[4][5] Through his mother, Crittle was a direct descendant of Thomas Rose, the English farmer who in 1793 was the first free settler to reach Australia.
In December 1966, Browne died in a car crash, while he was on his way to discuss shop front designs with the graphic artist David Vaughan.
[5] In 1968, Crittle's mother Sylvia arrived from Australia, but it being too late to book into a hotel, slept on the sofa in his King's Road store.
Waking in the morning and ascending the staircase, she briefly thought that she saw Jesus in a long white robe with a halo at the top of the stairs.