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Husband: | Charles Attfield Brooks (1905-1988) | |
Wife: | Rhoda Radcliffe (1907-1993) | |
Marriage | Jun 1932 | Dedham, Essex |
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 |
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 |
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.
BROOKS Rhoda of Bupa House 1 Chapman Av Downs Barn Milton died 15 January 1993. Probate Ipswich 16 August.