Brown, Frederick, b 1896

Frederick Brown was a statistician at the London School of Economics who worked on the War-time Social Survey (for an introduction to which, see SxMs 12), while it functioned under the auspices of the National Institute of Economic&Social Research. He had published A tabular guide to the foreign trade statistics of twenty-one principal countries in 1926, and with Arnold Plant and others he had contributed to Some modern business problems; a series of studies (London, New York, Longmans, Green, [1937]). By 1960 he was Reader in Commerce in the University of London.

From the guide to the War-time Social Survey Papers, 1940-1941 (Frederick Brown), 1940-1941, (University of Sussex Library)