Brandon was born in Worthing, Sussex, the younger son of Captain Vivian Ronald Brandon RN and of Joan Elizabeth Maud Simpson.

[1] Brandon was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1978 and sworn of the Privy Council.

On 24 September 1981, he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created a life peer with the title Baron Brandon of Oakbrook, of Hammersmith in Greater London.

Brandon married Jeanette Janvrin, a private secretary, on 28 December 1955; they had three sons and a daughter.

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