s when I started thinning at the crown (like a monk) ... and the rest of it began turning grey in my forties, yet my brother, Douglas - a mere 21/2 years younger than me - still has a full head of fairish brown hair; my dad wasn't bald (though his brothers had lost most of theirs.) Whilst on my mother's side ... she, herself never ever seemed to turn [noticeably] grey in her lifetime ... and her father had ALL his hair (predominantly black) right up until his death at the ripe old age of ninety~seven in 1979.