I first met Brian when he became deputy-director of Fraser House at North Ryde Psychiatric Centre back in the early '60s when I was the psychologist there. I had met Dr Neville Yeomans some time earlier - I was the first social scientist he had met and we became involved in a research study, using sociometric methods, of several chronic schizophrenic patients in another hospital. From there on, Dr Yeomans himself studied sociology at the University of NSW and propounded theories that mental illness was caused by environmental and particularly familial aspects of people's lives. Some time after Fraser House opened I was able to join the team and it was then I met Brian. He seemed terribly young (but then so were we all in those days!). He was still - if I remember rightly - still completing his Diploma of Psychiatric Medicine. His role and expertise were in some ways diminished by the hero-worship directed to Dr Yeomans by patients and staff alike so the two doctors played a kind of Batman and Robin act in the Unit. Brian was always approachable, affable, concerned for his patients and, like many of us who worked there at the time, thrived in the innovative atmosphere of what we called "the Unit". I moved away at the end of 1963 and lost touch with Brian but often wondered what had happened to him. I moved to Canberra 15 years ago and noted the name of the Rehab Centre and wondered if it had any connection with my erstwhile friend and colleague but until now, did not check up on my hunch....Google today showed me the answer and sadly, told me that Brian had died. Let me, once one of the central characters in the Fraser House epic, assure everyone that there are many, many others who would be saddened by the news of his death, people who his family and friends here in the ACT will never know, but who were Brian's colleagues and patients all those years ago and whose lives were enriched by knowing him.