Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte

Barbara Muriel Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystrafellte, of Ystradfellte in the County of Breconshire ( Birth name: Barbara Muriel Mathews; * January 14, 1908; † 1 September 2000) was a British politician of the Conservative Party, the Life Peeress as a result of the 1964 Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Barbara Mathews, daughter of a clergyman of the Anglican Communion, completed after the visit of the Queen Anne 's School in Caversham training at the Training College for Domestic Science in Gloucester. On April 22, 1933, she married Henry Brooke, the minister several times and most recently as Baron Brooke of Cumnor, Cumnor in the Royal County of Berkshire also was a member of the House of Lords later member of the House of Commons. From this marriage four children, including the eldest son Peter Brooke, who, like his father Lower House MP and minister was, and finally as Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, like his parents upper house member was. The younger son Henry Brooke was later judge of the civil division (Queen 's Bench Division ) of England and Wales competent High Court of Justice and worked most recently as a Lord Justice of Appeal of the equally competent for England and Wales Court of Appeal.

Brooke's own political career began in 1948 when she was first elected to the Tories as a member of the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead, where she was employed until 1964. During this time she served 1954-1964 as deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. In 1960, she was honored for her achievements Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, so that they henceforth the additional name "Lady " led. Furthermore, it was 1961-1971 Member of the Board of the North West Metropolitan Hospital.

By Letters Patent dated 7 December 1964, Barbara Brooke as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, of Ystradfellte in the County of Breconshire raised to the peerage, and thus belonged to her death in the House of Lords as a member. After her husband after his retirement from the House of Commons as Baron Brooke of Cumnor, of Cumnor in the Royal County of Berkshire also upper house member was on 20 July 1966 were both characterized the first couple who had represented jointly in a British Parliament.

In 1968, Baroness Brooke both Honorary Member ( Honorary Fellow ) at Queen Mary, and of today belonging Westfield College, University of London.