Archie Brown

Archibald Haworth Brown CMG, FBA commonly known as Archie Brown (born 10 May 1938), is a British political scientist and historian. In 2005, he became Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, where he was a Professor of Politics and Director of St Antony's Russian and East European Centre. He has written widely on Soviet and Russian politics, Communist politics more generally, the Cold War, and political leadership.

Brown was born in Annan, Scotland, and educated at Annan Academy and Dumfries Academy, before studying at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at the London School of Economics (LSE). He taught at Glasgow University from 1964 to 1971, during which time he was a British Council exchange scholar at Moscow State University for a year between 1967 and 1968.

He has been Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale University, the University of Connecticut and Columbia University. He was also a Visiting Professor and holder of the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Chair of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition, he spent the Fall semester of 1998 as the Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Archie Brown (rugby)

Archibald "Archie" Brown (2 November 1894 — death date unknown) was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1910s and '20s, playing representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales.

Brown was born in Crosskeys, and played at club level for Cross Keys RFC, Risca RFC, and Newport RFC, as a Scrum-half, i.e. number 9, and playing club level rugby league (RL) for Leeds, and Dewsbury, as a scrum-half/halfback, i.e. number 7.

Playing career

International honours

Archie Brown won a cap for Wales (RU) while at Newport RFC in 1921 against Ireland. he also played for the All International XV against Bristol in 1921.

County Cup final appearances

Archie Brown played scrum-half/halfback in Leeds' 11-3 victory over Dewsbury in the 1921 Yorkshire Cup final during the 1921–22 season at Thrum Hall, Halifax on Saturday 26 November 1921.

Club career

Archie Brown made his début for Leeds against Featherstone Rovers at Headingley Stadium on Monday 29 August 1921.

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