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Beatrice Agnes Hinchsliff in 1914, with whom he had three children. Brown became the organising secretary of the Brisbane branch of the Socialist Party, and was a regular contributor to
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at a steam-engine manufacturing company. He had a "restless disposition" and also briefly worked as a piano salesman and in a coal mine in the north of
England. He was a member of the
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367:Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
346:. By 1917 he was involved with the
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731:"Death registration: Gordon Brown"
539:Australian Dictionary of Biography
299:. He stood unsuccessfully for the
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644:"Roy Connolly's LOOK at a BOOK"
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413:, succeeding the late Senator
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463:and then the East Chapel of
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