Date of Birth: 18/01/1893
Place of Birth: Picton, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 18/01/1969
Place of Death: Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Chartered Accountant. Educated at Picton and Parramatta public schools; had a variety of jobs, including clerical work with the Western Post, Mudgee whislt studying accountancy part time; employed Starkey and Starkey, public accountants in Sydney in 1915; Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Australia (FICA); formed partnership with Brain and Noble which became Brain, Noble and Campbell in 1945; director of Beare and Ley Pty Limited, retailers, J.P Stuart Pty Ltd, retailers, McEwans Pty Ltd, retail grocers, and four terminating building societies; director of Chatswood Community Hospital; honorary secretary of Free Library Movement in 1936; president of the Monster War Carnival, Willoughby Park in 1941; honorary treasurer of New South Wales Division of Commonwealth Institute of Accountants; member of Middle Harbour progress association; New South Wales delegate to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association congress, India in 1957; keen sportsman, president of Parliamentary Bowling Club; Freemason.
Personal
Son of William Brain, farmer, and Charlotte Blatch. Married Paulina Merkle at Mudgee on January 1918 and they had 4 sons. Funeral at Northern Suburbs crematorium from St John's Church of England at Willoughby.
