Harold Brooks-Baker

Harold Brooks-Baker

Harold Brooks-Baker (16 November 1933-5 March 2005), was an American-British financier, journalist and publisher, and self-proclaimed expert on genealogy.

Born a U.S. citizen, the son of a Washington, D.C. attorney, he attended Trinity School in Hartford, Connecticut and Harvard University, in the same class as Ted Kennedy. He married (and divorced) a French countess, Irene Le Gras du Luart de Montsaulnin, and they had two daughters. In 1997 he remarried to Catherine Neville-Rolfe. Brooks-Baker preferred to be known as "Brookie". He adopted the "Brooks-" part of his surname voluntarily, perhaps because of a dispute with French authorities about his children's middle names.

He became a bond trader and settled in London in the 1960s. In 1974 Brooks-Baker and his business partners took over Debrett's, publisher of several titles on British aristocracy including "Debrett’s Peerage & Baronetage".

In 1984 he moved to Burke's Peerage Partnership as director of publishing. The partnership had been in poor financial health for years and had already sold its flagship publication, "Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage". Brooks-Baker was never associated with "Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage" but oversaw the publication of books about genealogy and the aristocracy including "Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of America". The company's major business was genealogical research.

As public relations for Burke's, he was a frequent commentator on the British Royal family and aristocracy in the British press. He was famous for his ostentatious and oft-disputed pronouncements regarding British royalty, and for his advocacy of the most royal candidate theory of U.S. presidential succession.

References

*cite news|title= Harold Brooks-Baker, 71, U.S. Royal Watcher (obituary)|date=March 8, 2005|publisher=The New York Times
*cite news|title= Obituary of Harold Brooks-Baker Publisher whose frequent comments on the Royal Family were roundly dismissed by Buckingham Palace|date=March 8, 2005|publisher=The Daily Telegraph (London)

External links

* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/08/db0803.xml Obituary] at The Daily Telegraph (UK)
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article421818.ece Obituary] at The Times (UK)
* [http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-03-06-brooks-baker-obit_x.htm Obituary] at USA Today


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