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Barbara Muriel Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte , DBE (née Mathews ; 14 January 1908 – 1 September 2000) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Personal life [ edit ]
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:
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 to 1964.[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 to 1966,[2] chair of The Queen's Institute of District Nursing from 1961 to 1971[2] and the North London Hospital Management Committee from 1963 to 1966.
Honours [ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
^ "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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