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 Brown's Schooldays (2005 film) The start of the film includes real historical events which are not in the book: Dr. Arnold closing down the school hunt; Dr. Arnold complaining that before his time, there were no masters in the school overnight to keep the boys in order. "Tom Brown's Schoolday's" was met positively by the critics. It was called "a flash of evil genius" by "The Daily Express", "one of the best TV adaptations of an English classic I have seen" by "The Daily Mail"; "The Radio Times" said that "viewers of every political colour will find much to delight them in Tom Brown's