John Brown (umpire)

{{short description|New Zealand cricket umpire}}

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| name = John Brown

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| country = New Zealand

| fullname = John Martin Ainley Brown

| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|4|27|df=yes}}

| birth_place = England

| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|1|12|1928|4|27|df=yes}}

| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand

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| testsumpired = 2

| umptestdebutyr = 1963

| umptestlastyr = 1964

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| date = 1 July

| year = 2013

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/36575.html Cricinfo

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John Martin Ainley Brown (27 April 1928 – 12 January 2005) was a New Zealand plant physiologist and cricket umpire. He stood in two Test matches between 1963 and 1964.{{Cite web |title=John Brown |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/36575.html |access-date=1 July 2013 |website=ESPN Cricinfo}}

Born in England, Brown earned his PhD at Durham University.[https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/calendar/archive/1960-calendar.pdf Calendar, 1960], University of Auckland, 1960, p. 28. He moved to New Zealand in 1956, becoming Professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Auckland, specialising in aquatic macrophytes.{{cite web |title=Brown, Elizabeth Anne |url=https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/brown-elizabeth-anne.html |website=Australian National Botanic Gardens |access-date=20 May 2022}} His daughter, Elizabeth Anne Brown, born in Auckland in late 1956, was a noted bryologist.

Brown umpired 10 first-class matches between January 1961 and January 1966, all but one of them at Eden Park in Auckland.{{cite web |title=John Brown as Umpire in First-Class Matches |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/41/41417/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=20 May 2022}}