Tom Brown (character) Harry Flashman, and invites him to a cricket game as an act of friendship. Flashman describes Tom's adult form as ""...a giant of a man...like some boxer..."" Flashman made some passing references to Brown in earlier novels, referring to him as "East's odious friend" in "Flashman at the Charge" and during Flashman's recollection of his expulsion in "Flashman". Tom Brown (character) Tom Brown is a fictional character created by author Thomas Hughes in his work "Tom Brown's School Days" (1857) which is set at a real English public school — Rugby School for Boys — in the 1830s when Hughes
Tom, Dick and Harry notable instances include the three Galapagos Island tortoises brought back to England aboard by Charles Darwin in 1835, as documented in his book, "The Voyage of the Beagle". They were named Tom, Dick and Harry. It was later discovered that "Harry" was a female and she was renamed "Harriet", and lived in captivity in Australia until her death in 2006, aged 175 years. In "", Robert Louis Stevenson refers to a general muster as calling up Dick, Tom, and Harry. In the television series "3rd Rock from the Sun", the three lead male characters were called Tommy, Dick and Harry.