Thomas Hamilton-Brown (1 July 1916 – 2 March 1981) was a South African boxer who competed in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

. Hamilton-Brown was born in Cape Town. In 1936 he was eliminated in the first round of the lightweight class after losing his fight to Carlos Lillo. He had originally won the bout but due to a scoring miscalculation he did not find this out until several days later, when he had gone on an eating binge and was too heavy for his weight class. Hamilton-Brown died in Cape Town on 2 March 1981, at the age of 64.

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Thomas Hamilton-Brown's profile at Sports Reference.comThomas Hamilton-Brown at olympic.org
* 1916 births 1981 deaths Lightweight boxers Olympic boxers for South Africa Boxers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Martial artists from Cape Town South African male boxers 20th-century South African sportsmen {{SouthAfrica-boxing-bio-stub