Stan Brock (philanthropist)
Stanley Edmunde Brock (April 21, 1936 – August 29, 2018) was a British philanthropist who founded the charity Remote Area Medical in 1985. He was known as a TV presenter, film actor, author and philanthropist. Critical of the healthcare system in the U.S., The Independent states his work rescued millions of uninsured Americans. Early life Stanley Edmunde Brock was born in 1936 in Preston, Lancashire, England. He grew up in Uplands, Swansea , where he enjoyed learning Welsh at school. He was educated at Canford School, Wimborne, Dorset. Brock travelled to Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1952 at the age of 17. He found work at the Dadanawa Ranch, managing the world's largest cattle ranch operation encompassing 4,000-square miles of rainforest and savannah. Dadanawa at that time contained over 30,000 Longhorn cattle and wild horses within the ranch. In time he would become the equivalent of the foreman among the other cowboys, or "Vaqueros," as they referred to themselves. During his time in British Guiana, Brock also became a pioneer bush pilot, which led to various certifications including airline transport pilot. It is here that the vision for his non-profit, Remote Area Medical, was born when he suffered an