Bob Moxon Browne

THE MOXON BROWNES - An Account of Octavius Browne, and his Family and Descendants - tells the story of the author's own ancestors over the last 250 years. From the eighteenth century drawing master and calligrapher; his son who deserted his family to start a new life as an artist in America and the exploits of his grandson Octavius and his family. Explorers and pioneers in Australia and New Zealand; entrepreneurs; soldiers, sailors and churchmen all played their part in the rise and decline of the British Empire and two World Wars.This book forms a companion volume to "Moxons and Brownes - An Account of Charles St Denys Moxon and his family" by the same author.Bob Moxon Browne is a leading lawyer in Great Britain but in his spare time he has been fascinated by family history and has researched his forebears in depth.Full-colour, 180 pages, 4 family trees, over 140 illustrations.

?The Moxons and the Brownes ? an account of Charles St Denys Moxon and his family? is a vivid account of two families ? the Moxons and the Brownes ? who combined an entrepreneurial spirit with artistic and scientific prowess. Four marriages took place between members of these two families between 1787 and 1840, and their offspring, in the following hundred years produced a geologist, several bankers, explorers, soldiers, churchmen, botanists, philanthropists and the artist who illustrated Charles Dickens's early works. The author of this book, Bob Moxon Browne, QC, is a descendant of these two families. He is a leading lawyer in Great Britain but in his spare time Bob has been fascinated by family history and has researched his 19th century forebears in depth. This book is enhanced with almost seventy illustrations by, and of, members of these families.