Tom Brown

Tom Brown is a fictional character created by the author Thomas Hughes in his semi-autobiographical work Tom Brown's Schooldays, first published in 1857, set at a real English public school, Rugby School for Boys, in the 1830s when Hughes himself had been a pupil there. Tom Brown is based on the author's brother, George Hughes, and George Arthur is based on Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. In Tom Brown's Schooldays, Tom Brown attends Rugby School after an... more

Tom Brown is a fictional character created by the author Thomas Hughes in his semi-autobiographical work Tom Brown's Schooldays, first published in 1857, set at a real English public school, Rugby School for Boys, in the 1830s when Hughes himself had been a pupil there. Tom Brown is based on the author's brother, George Hughes, and George Arthur is based on Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. In Tom Brown's Schooldays, Tom Brown attends Rugby School after an epidemic means that he is unable to attend his local school in Berkshire. At Rugby, he befriends Harry "Scud" East, a slightly-senior boy at the school, and falls foul of the school bully, Flashman. Over the course of the novel, Brown changes from a timid boy to a brave young man who has overcome his initial fear of Flashman and his fellow bullies. In the television adaption, he was played by Alex Pettyfer. In the sequel novel, Tom Brown at Oxford, Brown is now attending Oxford as his adventures continue, albeit without Scud East, who has... less