Christopher Nigel Rupert Brown, known as Nigel, was born on 21 January 1948. He was brought up the son of a district commissioner in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, educated in South Africa before Eton and Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards.
He subsequently spent 15 years in senior management, followed by 12 years as a business consultant specialising in advising clients on winning competitive global tenders.
He was initiated into Household Brigade Lodge No 2614 and then joined the Prince of Wales’s Lodge No 259 Westminster and Keystone Lodge No 10, Victoria Rifles Lodge No 822, and a number of other Lodges, including Royal Alpha and Royal Alfred.
He was an exaltee of the Prince of Wales’s Chapter No 259 and joined Westminster and Keystone Chapter No 10.
He was made a Dep in 2005 and served two years before being asked to take on the role of Grand Secretary.
In Rose Croix he was a past Dep and a member of the 33rd Degree.
He was President of his local Grenadier Guard Association for March. His son James followed him onto the Regiment.
Brown was a member of White’s and the Cavalry & Guards.
He died in 2024. The funeral took place in May at Grantchester Village Church.
