Geoffrey Houghton-Brown

Geoffrey Alban Michael Houghton Brown (12 April 1903 - 3 February 1993) was an artist and connoisseur.

Biography

Geoffrey Alban Michael Houghton Brown was born in Wimbledon on 12 April 1903.[1]

During World War II, considered unfit for service, he volunteered to extinguish fires following the bombings on the roof of Westminster Abbey.[1]

In 1947 he bought Winslow Hall, a Grade I building that was under threat of demolition. It became an antiques showroom, and was sold again in 1959.[2] Other than Winslow Hall, he owned Clouds House, Oving Hall, and Felix Hall.[1]

Other than collector of 18th century furniture, Houghton Brown was a painter of religious pictures in the Byzantine- Cubist style and had a studio in Tottenham Court Road. He was friend, and follower, of Roy de Maistre. He exhibited at the Ebury Street gallery, "Sacred Abstract Art".[1]

He edited an apologia of Nostradamus.[1]

He was also friends with Father Martin D'Arcy, Oliver Messel and James Lees-Milne. His lifelong companion was Ronald Fleming (1896 - 1968).[3][1]

Geoffrey Houghton-Brown died in Kingston upon Thames on 3 February 1993.[1]

gollark: https://esolangs.org/wiki/WHY
gollark: All three.
gollark: Unless you turn up the optimization setting to ~30, at which point it makes quite fast code.
gollark: ```python#!/usr/bin/env python3import argparseimport subprocessparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Compile a WHY program')parser.add_argument("input", help="File containing WHY source code")parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", help="Filename of the output executable to make", default="./a.why")parser.add_argument("-O", "--optimize", help="Optimization level", type=int, default="0")args = parser.parse_args()def build_C(args): template = """#define QUITELONG long long intconst QUITELONG max = @max@;int main() { QUITELONG i = 0; while (i < max) { i++; } @code@} """ for k, v in args.items(): template = template.replace(f"@{k}@", str(v)) return templateinput = args.inputoutput = args.outputtemp = "ignore-this-please"with open(input, "r") as f: contents = f.read() looplen = max(1000, (2 ** -args.optimize) * 1000000000) code = build_C({ "code": contents, "max": looplen }) with open(temp, "w") as out: out.write(code)subprocess.run(["gcc", "-x", "c", "-o", output, temp])```The compiler for the new `WHY` language. Made as a joke because someone on the esolangs server insisted that all compiled languages were fast.
gollark: BT being bad, who would ever guess so?

References
  1. LEES-MILNE, JAMES (1993). "Obituary: Geoffrey Houghton Brown". The Independent. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. Penny Churchill (10 May 2007). "For Sale: Winslow Hall". Country Life.
  3. Lees-Milne, James; Bloch, Michael (2011). Diaries, 1984-1997. Hachette UK. p. 195. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
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