Allan R. Brown was born in New York City in 1883. When he was three months old, his family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where his father clerked for banks. In 1903 Allan graduated from the University of Minnesota, where he had been managing editor of the college yearbook. The next year he moved to New York City to read law and in 1907 received his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the New York Law School, then the nation's largest. Outside of jurisprudence Mr. Brown became known as someone with a keen interest in theology, the works of William Blake, the political economics of Social Credit, and the psychology of inner development, especially as taught and practiced by A. R. Orage. Articles by Mr. Brown appeared in the Churchman and the New York Sun, and some of his poetry and critical articles were published in La renaissance esthetique. in the mid 1930s Mr. Brown was twice invited to speak to the Congress of the United States on the merits of Social Credit economics. Mr. Brown's achievements are the more remarkable for having occurred despite disablement due to Marie's spastic ataxia, an especially severe variant of Friedreich's ataxia. In retirement Mr. Brown divided his time between homes in Highlands, North Carolina, and Bradenton, Florida. during the last decades of his life he was cared for by his second wife, Mary, a nurse and fellow student of inner development who herself sacrificed part of a hand and later her life from caring for the injured (overexposure to x-rays led to cancer). Mr. Brown died at the age of 83 on 21 December 1966. As his correspondence demonstrates, he betrayed no diminution of intellectual or emotional faculties even a day or two before his organism's demise. Apparently he sought, to his last breath, to facilitate inner growth for everyone he loved, meaning everyone he knew. Each according to their own way, as he perceived that way.