Professor the 3rd Baron Brain, MA, DM, FRCP, died in Canada, 6 November, 2025. He was 97.
Lord Brain was Professor of Medicine, at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
He was born 6 August, 1928, the second son the 1st Baron Brain (1895-1966) and his wife the former Stella Langdon-Down.
Michael Cottrell Brain graduated from New College, Oxford University, in 1953 as a Bachelor of Surgery. He graduated in 1953 with a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Brain served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was registered as a Member, Royal College of Physicians, London (M.R.C.P.) in 1955. He graduated from New College, Oxford in 1955 with a Master of Arts (M.A.) He was appointed Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, Canada (F.R.C.P.) in 1958. He graduated from New College, Oxford University, Oxford, in 1963 with a Doctor of Medicine (D.M.)1 He was a physician between 1966 and 1969 at Hammersmith Hospital, Hammersmith, London. He was appointed Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London (F.R.C.P.) in 1968. He was Professor of Medicine between 1969 and 1976 at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
Brain's father, was FRCP 1931; President of the Royal College of Physicians 1950-57; knighted 1952; created a Baronet in 1954, FRS 1964, and raised to the peerage in 1962 as Baron Brain. At his demise, 29 Dec, 1966, he was succeeded by his elder son, Christopher, who died without male issue, 15 Aug, 2014.
Michael Brain married 10 December, 1960, Dr the Hon Elizabeth Ann Herbert (born 17 Nov, 1933), elder daughter of the life peer the Baron Tangley, KBE (1899-1973), and his wife the former Gwendolen Hilda Judd, by whom he had issue, a son the Hon Thomas Russell Brain, and two daughters, the Hon Hilary and the Hon Philippa Brain. The only son, born 23 Oct, 1965, succeeds as 4th Baron Brain and a Baronet.
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