Stanley Eric Vincent Brown FRCS (28 August 1885 – 21 January 1945) was a New Zealand doctor and sportsman.
[2] After qualifying in 1908, he took up a position at Wellington Hospital as a house officer for two years before moving to England to further his studies in London in 1910.
[2][4] After volunteering for service with the New Zealand Medical Corps (NZMC), he was initially refused permission to serve overseas, his role at Invercargill being deemed too important.
[7][8][9] In November 1918, however, he was commissioned as a captain in the NZMC and served overseas, initially on SS Maheno, a civilian vessel chartered for use as a hospital ship, and from February 1919 in England.
[2][10][11] Whilst in England, Brown studied orthopaedic surgery techniques and when he returned to New Zealand in August 1919 he worked for a time as an orthopaedic surgeon at the Chalmers Military Hospital at Christchurch, an institution established to treat injured servicemen, with the rank of temporary major.
[a] In the match, a heavy defeat for Southland, Brown made scores of eight runs in his first innings and four not out in his second.
[2][10] Their son, Rutherford Brown, qualified as a dispensing chemist and served in the New Zealand Medical Corps during World War II.
He was captured during the invasion of Crete in 1941 and spent three years as a prisoner of war in Germany before being repatriated in 1944.