Antony Barrington Brown

Who is Antony Barrington Brown?

Antony Barrington Brown was a designer, photographer and explorer.

His photograph of Watson and Crick soon after they had discovered the structure of DNA, later became the iconic image of the pair. He was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.

He worked at Dexion in the mid-1950s and designed a successful system called Speedframe.

In 1955 Barrington Brown was part of the Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, a 32,000-mile trip overland from Hyde Park Corner to Singapore, and back. The trip was recorded in the book First Overland: London-Singapore by Land Rover by Tim Slessor.

He was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford, and following National Service, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Barrington Brown and his wife Althea Wynne were killed in a car accident near their home in Wiltshire in January 2012.