![]() ![]() After marrying Dorothy May Oldfield in 1923 the couple lived with Basil’s parents at Church Farm, Rickinghall. Lacking the right social credentials for higher education did not prevent this extraordinary man achieving his intellectual potential. Charles Phillips, who took charge of the 1939 dig mentioned in his book, ‘My Life in Archaeology’, that Brown had suffered ill health in his early years. Those innovations were on the cusp of exploding into our own modern perceptions of fairness, democracy and comfort.įortuitously for us, posterity and Sutton Hoo Basil was rejected in 1915 from military service as medically unfit. Leaving school in 1900 he was at the very tail end of the Victorian age, a long era of particular values that ran alongside great change and innovation. He would not have dreamed he could access formal further or higher education. By today’s standards we would describe him as growing up in poverty but, in contemporary English rural communities, leaving school at this age to scratch a living as a farmer was quite normal. He attended Rickinghall Church School until the age of 12. ![]() The real Basil Brown, picture: East Anglian Daily Times.īasil was born on 22 nd January 1888 to tenant farmers George and Charlotte Brown, he was their only child. ![]()
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