Alfred Edwin Brain Jr. (born London, 24 October 1885; died Los Angeles, 29 March 1966)[1] was an English French horn player.
His father, Alfred Edwin Brain Sr. was also a well-known horn player.
[2] He studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Adolf Borsdorf, learning the piano from G.D. Cunningham, who taught his nephew the pipe organ forty years later.
[2] When World War I broke out, he joined the Scots Guards.
When he returned to London after the war, along with his brother Aubrey Brain, he worked with several London-based orchestras, including at Covent Garden where he played with Sir Thomas Beecham.