Darwin Bromley

Darwin Paul Bromley (October 23, 1950 – January 2, 2019) was an attorney and a game designer who had worked primarily on board games.

Career Darwin Bromley was an attorney who enjoyed railroad games, so he started the company Mayfair Games in 1980 to publish a railroad game that he designed; he named the company after the Mayfair neighborhood of Chicago where he founded it. Bromley made Bill Fawcett a partner in Mayfair Games soon after, and they worked together to design the game Empire Builder (1980).

In 2018, Bromley made a donation, on behalf of himself and his late brother Peter, to The Strong National Museum of Play. It was the single largest donation in the history of the museum.

He served as vice president of the GAMA Trade Show, and in 1990 he received the GAMA Merit of Service award. He died on January 2, 2019, at the age of 68 following a long illness.