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Their son, David Brown, said his mother described Thomas Brown during his Knox days as “the obnoxious guy sitting in the front of class, smoking a pipe and arguing with the professor.”

He is whimsical, funny, snarky, slightly obnoxious and at his core, I think, very sincere.

You probably don’t need me to supply the obnoxious punchline to that joke.

In January 2022 he was put on notice for a host of causes: combative emails, obnoxious behavior, failures of organization.

"It's just so, so obnoxious," says Connor James, who lives in east London and listens to music on public transport - but always has headphones in.