Assam-born doctor Binay Kumar Pathak, who received an MBE from Queen Elizabeth II in 2003, died in Nottingham, England, on Sunday. He was 85, according to the supplied report.
Family sources said Pathak died at a local hospital around 4 pm UK time due to age-related ailments.
Pathak worked as a general practitioner in several parts of the United Kingdom for decades. He received the Member of the Order of the British Empire honor at Buckingham Palace in 2003, in the presence of Charles, the then Prince of Wales.
Born in Barpeta on June 1, 1940, he was the eldest son of physician Aravinda Pathak. He completed his early education in Barpeta before studying at Don Bosco School and Cotton College in Guwahati.
He graduated with an MBBS from Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, in 1965. He moved to London in 1967 for higher studies and medical research, and settled in Nottingham in the 1970s.
Pathak married in London. His wife died in 2016, and the couple had no children. He had reportedly bequeathed a substantial portion of his wealth to charitable trusts.
His ancestral village was Byaskuchi in Barpeta.