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Family of Charles Attfield Brooks and Rhoda Radcliffe

Husband: Charles Attfield Brooks (1905-1988)
Wife: Rhoda Radcliffe (1907-1993)
Marriage Jun 1932 Dedham, Essex

Husband: Charles Attfield Brooks

Name: Charles Attfield Brooks
Sex: Male
Father: Charles Norman Brooks (1856-1925)
Mother: Gertrude Attfield (1867-1937)
Birth 8 Apr 1905 Dovercourt, Essex
Baptism 16 May 1905 (age 0) St Mary's, Mistley, Essex (by Rev. Canon Charles Frederick Norman)
Title Lieut.-Col.
Birth fact 1905 (age 0) 1905 Jun Qtr, Tendring, 4a/784
Occupation 11 Dec 1926 (age 21) Commission as 2nd Lieut, 5th Bn, Essex Regiment (L.Gaz, 10.12.1926)
Residence 1957 (age 51-52) The Lecture House, Dedham, Essex
Death fact Jan 1988 (age 82) Jan 1988, Colchester, 9/2344 (aged 82)
Occupation 1988 (age 82-83) Retired company director, 6 Frog Meadow, Dedham, Colchester, Essex (L.Gazette 22.2.1988)
Death 13 Jan 1988 (age 82) Dedham, Essex

Wife: Rhoda Radcliffe

Name: Rhoda Radcliffe
Sex: Female
Father: Frank Radcliffe (1872-1947)
Mother: Sarah Ann Dronsfield (1872- )
Birth 16 Jan 1907 Oldham, Lancashire
Birth fact 1907 (age 0) GRO Reference: 1907 M Quarter in OLDHAM Volume 08D Page 646
Census 1911 (age 3-4) Living with parents
Death fact Jan 1993 (age 85-86) Milton Keynes, C10B/151 (aged 85)
Death 15 Jan 1993 (age 85) Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

Note on Husband: Charles Attfield Brooks - shared note

Lt. Col. Charles Attfield Brooks was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion the Essex Regiment (T.A.) and on its formation in 1939 was appointed second-in-command, and served in Africa and the Middle East.

He joined the family business of Brooks of Mistley in the 1920s after taking a degree in agriculture at Cambridge University. He was appointed a director in 1928, and retired (as Chairman) in 1971.

He held many official posts in Essex, and was also an authority on John Constable.

[Thanks to Phil Whitehead for the above information]

 

Charles Attfield Brooks was co-Author of "Constable and his country", by Alastair Smart and Attfield Brooks, Elek, London, 1976.

Note on Wife: Rhoda Radcliffe

BROOKS Rhoda of Bupa House 1 Chapman Av Downs Barn Milton died 15 January 1993. Probate Ipswich 16 August.