Arthur Graham Brown

Brown joined the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union in 1936, and the British Ornithologists' Union in 1939.^[1] In 1956, he founded the Colac Field Naturalists' Club and was its first President.^[1] He joined the Royal Society of Victoria in 1959, and served on its council from 1970 to 1974.^[1] In 1968, he became an Honorary Associate in Ornithology at the National Museum of Victoria.^[1] He was involved in several extended ornithological field trips, including to north-west Australia in 1959, around the Australian continent in 1962, and to Australia's centre and north-west regions in 1967.^[1] He published the first Victorian record of the cattle egret (Ardeola ibis coromanda).^[1] Brown served as President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union from 1969 to 1972, and presided over efforts to modernise the organisation.^[1]

Brown married Joan Frecheville in 1946, and together they had two sons and two daughters.^[1] Joan died in 1967 following a long illness.^[1] In 1968, he married Noela Downey.^[1] Brown died on 3 January 1982 at his home at Heathcote Junction, near Wandong, Victoria, and was survived by his second wife, Noela.^[1]