Billy Brownless

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Anthony William “Billy” Brownless (born 28 January 1967 in Jerilderie, New South Wales, Australia) is a former Australian rules footballer with the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League and media personality.

Brownless made his VFL/AFL debut in Round 1, 1986 and quickly made a name for himself as a strong full-forward, winning the Cats’ Best First Year Player award that year. He went on to play 198 games and kick 441 goals, putting him 3rd in Geelong’s all-time goalkicking list, behind Gary Ablett (1021) and Doug Wade (834).

Once Brownless retired from football he moved into the media, appearing regularly on The Footy Show.

Edmund Philip Brownless

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The English tenor, Edmund Philip Brownless, sang as chorister in the choir of Hereford Cathedral.
After emigrating to Nova Scotia he studied music at McGill University in Montréal, where he received B. Mus. and M. Mus. degrees in voice. Later, he studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland and had lessons with Cornelius L. Reid in New York

Accountant Brownless

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Grahame Brownless, aka GR Bert or STOMPER was born in England. He is a well known accountant and entrepreneur. His whereabouts are currently unknown.

Artist Mary Brownless

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Mary Brownless has been painting in water-colour for over 60 years. She studied privately with Gladys Best, R.W.A. in Devon, England and then at the Walsall College of Arts and Design. She paints land- and seascapes in the traditional English style using a limited palette of 4 to 5 colours for each scene, thus setting the tone and atmosphere.

She belonged to many art societies in the UK and, since coming to Nova Scotia in 1970, she has been a member of the Annapolis Royal Arts Council, the Chester Heritage Society and Gallery and the Lunenburg Heritage Society, which started the Lunenburg Art Gallery Society

Sir Anthony Brownless

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Sir Anthony Brownless (1817-1897), physician and educationist, was born on 19 January 1817, the only son of Anthony Brownless of Paynett’s House and Bockingfold Manor near Goudhurst, Kent, England, and his wife Martha, née Austen; through his father he was related to the earls of Lauderdale.

His early education was by private tutor and, being intended for the Anglican Church, by Rev. C. E. Smith, M.A., of Badlesmere, Kent. After some grounding in the classics he decided to study medicine and was apprenticed to Charles Wilks of Charing, Kent.