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
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is really Jenny Jones, Tom's supposed mother, and Tom fears that he has committed incest. However, this is not the case, as Tom's mother is in fact Bridget Allworthy, who conceived him after an affair with a schoolmaster. Tom is thus Squire Allworthy's nephew. After finding out about the intrigues of Blifil, who is Tom's half-brother, Allworthy decides to bestow most of his inheritance on Tom. After Tom's true parentage is revealed he and Sophia marry, as Squire Western no longer harbours any misgivings about Tom marrying his daughter. Sophia bears Tom a son and a daughter, and the couple