Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, CH, PC, who died 13 May, 2023, aged 89, was a former Conservative MP and Cabinet minister who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Brooke served as Tory MP for the Cities of London and Westminster seat from 1977 to 2001. He was an assistant Government Whip, 1979-1981. He was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1981-1983; and was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science, 1983-1985; Minister of State, H.M. Treasury, 1985-1987; and was Paymaster-General, 1987-1989; Chairman of the Conservative Party, 1987-1989.
He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1988; and served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 1989 and 1992. He was appointed a Companion of Honour (C.H.) in 1992. He held the office of Secretary of State, National Heritage between 1992 and 1994.
Peter Leonard Brooke was born 3 March, 1934, son of the Rt Hon Henry Brooke, CH, PC (1903-1984), also a Conservative MP, who served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General from 1961 to 1962 and — following the "Night of the Long Knives" — as Home Secretary from 1962 to 1964, and was created, in retirement, Baon Brooke of Cunmor, a life peerage.
Peter Brooke's mother, Barbara Muriel Matthews, DBE (1908-2000), a joint vice-chairman of the Conservative party for the decade 1954-64, who in 1964 was raised to the peerage for life as Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte.
He married firstly, 17 March, 1964, Joan Margaret Smith (who died 1985), daughter of Frederick George Smith; and married secondly, in 1991, Lindsay Allinson.
In 2001 he was created a life peer as Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, of Sutton Mandeville in the County of Wiltshire. He was Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers, and retired from the Lords in 2015.
He leaves issue, three sons from his first marriage, Jonathan, Daniel and Sebastian. Another son died in infancy.
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