Collection

School Clothing

Title

School Blazer Belonging to A.F.R. (Tony) Brown from the Class of 1946

Name Access

Brown, A.F.R.

Brown, Antony

Brown, Tony

Original Owner

Antony F.R Brown

Subject Access

1940s

Clothing

Uniform

Category

Clothing

Sub-Category

Clothing - Outerwear

Start Date

1946

Description

A red blazer jacket with silver SAC crest buttons and a stitched SAC cross over the breast pocket.

Public Description

A school blazer beloning to Antony (Tony) Brown during the year of 1946. Tony was awarded an entrance scholarship when entering SAC in 1942, and was first with 1st class honours in each form, and was Head Boy in his final year. After graduation, Tony won four university scholarships, and went on to be a top honours graduate from the University of Toronto in Oriental Languages. He then was awarded a fellowship at Princeton University for his Masters. Finally, he was one of the twenty-one Canadians selected by the Royal Society of Canada to study abroad, and he prepared his thesis on the study of Aramaic dialects at the University of Leyden.

Material

Cloth

Culture

Old Boys

Artifacts from School days at St. Andrew's College

Accession No.

2022-74

Type

Artifact

Less detail