Nev Brown 27.1.1930-22.11.2003

摘要

We will miss our English friend a lot! It is with sadness that we report the death of the first Vice-President and former Chairman of Sheffield and District Orchid Society. Joseph Neville Brown, universally known as Nev, died suddenly on Saturday 22 November aged 73 years. Nev and Ruth joined the society in about 1975 and soon held office on the committee. They organised the society's first trip to Germany to the Sixth European Congress held in Hamburg in 1982. They have run similar visits almost annually to the German Congresses since.only recently handing over the reins to another member, Nev was a qualified B.O.C. judge and was actively involved in orchid judging both at home and abroad. His assessments occasionally appeared idiosyncratic but were always the result of his knowledge and understanding of the plants in question. He was outspoken(some might say stubborn) but his reasoning was always coherent and usually convincing.