Brian Brown (Royal Navy officer)
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Admiral
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 Sir Brian Thomas Brown KCB
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 CBE
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 (born 31 August 1934) is a senior Royal Navy
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 officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel
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Naval career

Educated at Peter Symonds College
Peter Symonds College
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, Brown joined the Royal Navy
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 in 1952. He was appointed Commanding Officer
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 of the training establishment HMS Raleigh
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 in 1984.

He was appointed Director-General of Naval Personal Services and Chief Naval Supply and Secretariat Officer in 1986, Director-General of Naval Manpower and Training in 1987 and Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel
Second Sea Lord
The Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command , commonly just known as the Second Sea Lord , is one of the most senior admirals of the British Royal Navy , and is responsible for personnel and naval shore establishments.-History:In 1805, for the first time, specific functions were...

 in 1988. In that capacity he encouraged women to serve at sea because there were too few men joining the Royal Navy. He retired in 1991.

In retirement he became a Non-Executive Director of Cray Electronic Holdings
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 and then of Lorien plc. He also became Chairman of the Hampshire Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. He lives near Petersfield
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