Tom Brown (character)

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Tom Brown is a fictional character created by the author Thomas Hughes in his semi-autobiographical work Tom Brown's Schooldays, first published in 1857, set at a real English public school, Rugby School for Boys, in the 1830s when Hughes himself had been a pupil there. Tom Brown is based on the author's brother, George Hughes, and George Arthur is based on Arthur Penrhyn Stanley.