Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood

The Right Honourable The Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood PC
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
In office 1 October 2009 – 9 April 2012
Nominated by	Jack Straw
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	Position created
Succeeded by	The Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office 13 January 2004 – 30 September 2009
Preceded by	The Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Lord Justice of Appeal
In office 1992–2004
High Court Judge
In office 1984–1992
Personal details
Born	Simon Denis Brown (1937-04-09) 9 April 1937
Nationality	British
Spouse	Jennifer Buddicom ​ (m. 1963)​
Alma mater	Worcester College, Oxford
Occupation	Judge
Profession	Barrister
Military service
Branch/service	British Army
Years of service	1955-57
Rank	Lieutenant
Unit	Royal Artillery

Simon Denis Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, PC (born 9 April 1937) is a British barrister and former Law Lord and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, from 2009 to 2012.

Early life

Stowe School

The son of Denis Baer Brown and Edna Elizabeth Brown (née Abrahams), Brown was born on 9 April 1937 into a middle class Jewish family. He was educated at Stowe School, an independent school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire.

He undertook National Service in the Royal Artillery from 1955 to 1957. He was commissioned on 24 March 1956 as a second lieutenant. He was transferred to the Regular Army Reserves of Officers on 29 July 1957, thereby ending his active service. He was promoted to lieutenant on 7 January 1961.

He graduated from Worcester College, Oxford, of which he was elected an honorary fellow in 1993.

Legal career

Brown was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1961, having been Harmsworth Scholar. From 1979 to 1984, he was a Recorder and First Junior Treasury Counsel (Common Law). From 1980, he was a Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple.

Judicial career

Brown was appointed a High Court Judge in 1984 and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, receiving a knighthood on his appointment. He became a Lord Justice of Appeal, a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, in 1992 and was made a Privy Counsellor in the same year. He was vice-president of the Civil Division from 2001 to 2003.

On 13 January 2004, he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and therefore became a life peer with the title Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, of Eaton-under-Heywood in the County of Shropshire, sitting as a crossbencher. He and nine other Lords of Appeal in Ordinary became Justices of the Supreme Court upon that body's inauguration on 1 October 2009.

Personal life

He has been married to Jennifer Buddicom since 31 May 1963; they have two sons and one daughter (Benedict, Daniel and Abigail) and five grandchildren.