He was also a keen botanist and lichenologist, involved in recording plant and lichen distributions in northern England.
Brian William Fox was born in Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, south Wales.
In 1980 Fox was promoted to a personal chair in experimental chemotherapy at University of Manchester.
He became deputy director of the Paterson Institute at Christie Hospital, Manchester.
[1] Fox was the author or co-author of over 70 scientific publications about chemotherapeutic agents.