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]
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References
- ↑ "Lord Brookes". Daily Telegraph. 6 August 2002. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ↑ "No. 46798". The London Gazette. 16 January 1976. p. 785.
- ↑ 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.)
- ↑ "Lord Brookes". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 1985.
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