Walter Talbot Brown and born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England on 10 July 1852 and was articled to Edmund Francis Law (1810?-1882) in Northampton, England from 1869 to 1874. He was a Pugin Student in 1877. He worked as an assistant to John George Dunn (?-1833) in Birmingham, and to Edmund Sharpe (1809-1877).
Brown commenced independent practice in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire in c.1876 and was in partnership with James William Fisher (1857-1936) as Talbot Brown & Fisher from 1880 to 1931.
He was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1880 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1894.
His address was given as The Square, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire in 1879 and 1894; Burysteed in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire in 1909 and 1930.
He died in Wellingborough on 19 August 1931.
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001