Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte
The Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 7 December 1964 – 1 September 2000 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | 14 January 1908 |
Died | 1 September 2000 | (aged 92)
Political party | Conservative |
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Alma mater | Queen Anne's School |
Barbara Muriel Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, DBE (née Mathews; 14 January 1908 – 1 September 2000) was a British Conservative politician.
Personal life
Baroness Brooke was the youngest of five children of a Welsh minister, Rev. Alfred Augustus Mathews, and his wife, Ethel Frances. She was educated at Queen Anne's School in Caversham, Berkshire and the Gloucester Training College of Domestic Science.
On 22 April 1933, she married fellow Conservative, Henry Brooke; the couple had four children:
- Peter Leonard Brooke (b. 1934), later The Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, a Conservative politician.
- Sir Henry Brooke (1936-2018), a judge and Lord Justice of Appeal.
- Honor Leslie Brooke (b. 1941), married Dr. Thomas Nigel Miller.
- Margaret Hilary Diana Brooke (b. 1944), married Dr. James Pulfer.
Career
After having started a family, Brooke entered politics in 1948, when she became a member of Hampstead Council,[1][2] a seat she held until 1965;[2] she also was a Joint Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1954–64.[2] She had also been active in a number of health organisations in her lifetime, including being a member of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board from 1954–66,[2] chair of The Queen's Institute of District Nursing from 1961–71[2] and the North London Hospital Management Committee from 1963–66.
Honours
In the 1960 New Year Honours, Brooke was appointed to the Order of the British Empire as a Dame Commander (DBE), for "political and public services".[3] In 1964, she was raised to the peerage as Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, of Ystradfellte in the County of Brecknock[4] and two years later her husband was created Baron Brooke of Cumnor.[5]
References
- ^ "Obituaries - Baroness Brooke". The Guardian. 12 September 2000. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d e "Obituaries - Lady Brooke of Ystradfellte". The Telegraph. 5 September 2000. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
- ^ "No. 41909". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1959. p. 10.
- ^ "No. 43511". The London Gazette. 8 December 1964. p. 10447.
- ^ "No. 44059". The London Gazette. 21 July 1966. p. 8227.
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