It was created on 26 January 1962 for the physician and neurologist Sir Russell Brain, 1st Baronet.
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The First World War having begun in 1914, the following year he joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit as an alternative to volunteering for combat, and was sent to York, moving later to the King George Hospital in London, attached to the X-ray department.