Antony Barrington Brown FRPS (13 July 1927 – 24 January 2012) was a British designer, photographer, and explorer. He was known to many colleagues as BB. Barrington Brown was educated at

St Edward's School, Oxford St Edward's School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) in Oxford, England. It is known informally as 'Teddies'. Approximately sixty pupils live in each of its thirteen houses. The school is a member of the Rugby G ...

, and following National Service in the Royal Tank Regiment went up to

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of t ...

, to read

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. At Cambridge he was picture editor of the student newspaper '' Varsity''. His photograph of Watson and Crick, taken in 1953 soon after they had discovered the structure of DNA, later became the iconic image of the pair. In 1955–56 Barrington Brown was part of the

Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition The 1955-56 Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition was a publicity effort by Land Rover in support of the 1956 Land Rover Series I Station Wagons. The station wagons were very different from the previous Tickford model, being built with bolt ...

, a 32,000-mile trip overland from Hyde Park Corner to Singapore, and back. The trip was recorded in the book ''First Overland: London-Singapore by Land Rover'' by Tim Slessor. In the mid-1950s he worked at

Dexion Dexion is a company name and brand particularly associated with the development of the "Dexion" slotted angle steel strip construction system, widely used since the 1950s for domestic and commercial shelving, storage racking, exhibition stands ...

and designed a successful storage system called Speedframe.Daily Telegraph, 14 February 2012
Obituary of Antony Barrington Brown
A member of the Royal Photographic Society from 1951, he became a Fellow in 2003. Barrington Brown and his wife, the sculptor Althea Wynne, were killed in a car accident near their home at Upton Lovell, Wiltshire in January 2012.Althea Wynne (obituary)
in

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was f ...

dated 14 February 2012, online at telegraph.co.uk, accessed 3 June 2012

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First Overland Newsletter tribute issue for BBObituary in Land Rover Owner International
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