Ian Gillies
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Ian Gillies, known to many simply as Mycroft from BBC Radio 4's Brain of Britain, was one of the greatest quiz players and question setters in Britain. His character name was taken from Arthur Conan Doyle's Mycroft Holmes, the smarter older brother of Sherlock Holmes.
He won Brain of Britain twice in 1964 and 1968[citation needed] and Brain of Brains in 1970.
Educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and Jesus College, Oxford he joined the Royal Air Force before retiring on medical grounds.
He died in 2002 and was replaced on Brain of Britain by Kevin Ashman as Jorkins.
