Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor CH, PC ( born April 9, 1903 in Oxford, † March 29 1984 in Mildenhall, Wiltshire ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party.
Biography
After attending Marlborough College Brooke graduated at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
His political career began as a candidate of the Conservative Party in 1938, the first election for deputies in the House of Commons, in which he represented the constituency of Lewisham West until 1945. He then worked for ten years in local politics, and from 1945 to 1955 member of both the London County Council as well as the Hampstead Borough Council. In 1950 he was again elected to the House and now represented the constituency until 1966 Hampstead. Since 1955 he was a member of the Privy Council.
After he was 1954-1957 Financial Secretary to the Treasury ( Financial Secretary to the Treasury), he was appointed in 1957 as Minister for Wales in the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. At the same time he was 1957-1961 Minister of Housing and Local Government. After a cabinet reshuffle In 1961 he was Paymaster General and Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
After a further reorganization of the government in 1962 Brooke Interior Minister ( Home Secretary ) and has held this office in the Cabinet of Macmillan's successor, Alec Douglas -Home.
After retiring from the House, he was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Brooke of Cumnor in the peerage on 20 July 1966, was thus until his death on due to Parkinson's disease the House of Lords.
Brooke was married since 1933 with Barbara Muriel Mathews, with whom he had two sons and two daughters. It was recorded in 1966 as Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte in the House of Lords, it was later the first couple who had represented jointly in a British Parliament. Brooke's eldest son, Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, who was a member of the lower house and several times minister and now also as a life peer is also a member of the House of Lords.