[1] Brown was born in Cliffe, Kent and initially worked in the cement industry as a labourer.
He was taken on at Kent's Tonbridge Nursery as a promising young cricketer in 1899 and played his three first-class matches during that season, against Essex, the Marylebone Cricket Club and Sussex.
[2] He was used as a bowler, as most of the young professionals at the Nursery were, taking five wickets.
[2][3] In 1911 Brown was the landlord of a public house in Chatham but by 1918, when he enlisted in the Royal Navy, he was working as an engineer.
He was demobilised in January 1919 and died, aged 82, at Watford in Hertfordshire in October 1957.