David Brown (entrepreneur)
Sir David Brown was an English entrepreneur, managing director of his family firm David Brown Ltd. and one time owner of shipbuilders Vosper Thorneycroft and automobile manufacturer Aston Martin.
Brown was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. After attending King Jamess Grammar School, Almondbury and Rossall School he started work as an apprentice in the family business, David Brown Gear Company Ltd. He became managing director in 1931, on his uncle Percys death.
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