Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte

Barbara Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte

Barbara Muriel Brooke, Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte and Baroness Brooke of Cumnor DBE (14 January 1908–1 September 2000) was a British Conservative politician.

Brooke was the youngest of five children of Welsh minister, Rev. Alfred Augustus Mathews and his wife, Ethel Frances. She was educated at [http://www.qas.org.uk/ Queen Anne's School] in Caversham, Berkshire and Gloucester Training College of Domestic Science. On 22 April 1933, she married fellow Conservative, Henry Brooke and they had four children:

*Peter Leonard (b. 1934), later Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville.
*Henry (b. 1936), later Sir Henry.
*Honor Leslie (b. 1941), married Dr. Thomas Nigel Miller.
*Margaret Hilary Diana (b. 1944), married Dr. James Pulfer.

After having started a family, Brooke entered politics in 1948, when she became a member of Hampstead Council, a seat she held until 1965, whilst also having been Joint Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1954-64. 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, chair of The Queen's Institute of District Nursing from 1961-71 and the North London Hospital Management Committee from 1963-66. She was made a Dame in 1960. In 1966 she was awarded a life peerage as Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, of Ystradfellte in the County of Breconshire and two years later her husband was created Baron Brooke of Cumnor.


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