Raymond Brookes, Baron Brookes

Raymond Percival Brookes, Baron Brookes (10 April 1909 – 31 July 2002) was a British industrialist.

Brookes became the Managing Director of GKN in 1964 and the group's Chairman and Chief Executive in 1965. He retired in 1974 and was made GKN's Life President.[1]

Brookes was knighted in 1971. On 14 January 1976, he was created a life peer, as Baron Brookes, of West Bromwich in the County of West Midlands.[2] He sat as a Conservative until 1990, when he left the Conservative Party in protest against the removal of Margaret Thatcher.[3] He then sat as a crossbencher.[4]

Coat of arms

Coat of arms of Raymond Brookes, Baron Brookes
Crest
A demi-bear rampant Proper beside and resting its sinister paw on an anvil Sable.
Escutcheon
Or on a pale Sable between in chief two crosses crosslet Gules a sword the point upwards and enfiling a Stafford knot the blade charged above with guard with a sun in splendour over all Or.
Supporters
Dexter a dragon Sable armed Gules sinister a figure habited as Vulcan standing in front of an anvil resting his exterior hand on a hammer all Proper.
Motto
Ignis Indurat Animum [5]

References

  1. ^ "Lord Brookes". Daily Telegraph. 6 August 2002. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  2. ^ "No. 46798". The London Gazette. 16 January 1976. p. 785.
  3. ^ Baker, Anne Pimlott. "Brookes, Raymond Percival, Baron Brookes (1909–2002)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/77155. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ "Lord Brookes". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
  5. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1985.
Stub icon

This biography of a life peer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.