C. J. (Cecil Jermyn) Brown

Born in Ipswich in 1886, he was a British teacher of English who spent much of his career in India. Sources describe him as being educated in Ipswich and at Trinity College, Oxford, and as teaching at Canning College, Lucknow from 1909 before later serving at Allahabad University and Lucknow University.

Alongside his academic work, he became known as a numismatist. He wrote The Coins of India and is also credited with work on the Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, helping document and explain the coinage of the Indian subcontinent in a way that remained useful to students, collectors, and historians.

He died on October 20, 1945. Although biographical details are fairly sparse, the record that does survive points to a scholar who connected literary teaching with a serious, practical interest in historical evidence through coins.