Barbara Muriel, daughter of the Reverend Alfred Mathews, in 1933. As she was made a life peer, too, they were one of the few couples who both held titles in their own right. The couple had four children: Peter Leonard Brooke (b. 1934), later The Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, a Conservative politician. Sir Henry Brooke (1936–2018), a judge and Lord Justice of Appeal. Honor Leslie Brooke (b. 1941), married Thomas Nigel Miller. Margaret Hilary Diana Brooke (b. 1944), married James Pulfer. Lord Brooke of Cumnor died from Parkinson's disease in March 1984, aged 80. One biographer has written of him: "He was a quiet, friendly, honest and steadfast man, who was regarded by his detractors as a cruel, deceitful, ogre. His gentle, affectionate memoir of his father Leslie Brooke and Johnny Crow (1982) belies the public's view of him". His wife died in September 2000, aged 92. Notes References 1903 births 1984 deaths People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Brooke of Cumnor Members of London County Council Members of Hampstead Metropolitan Borough Council Secretaries of State for the Home Department Spouses of life peers Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs 1964–1966 UK MPs who were granted peerages Life peers created by Elizabeth II United Kingdom Paymasters General Neurological disease deaths in England Deaths from Parkinson's disease Ministers in the third Churchill government, 1951–1955 Ministers in the Eden government, 1955–1957 Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964 Chief Secretaries to the Treasury