Cynthia Brooke, Viscountess Brookeborough
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Dame Cynthia Mary Sergison Brooke, Viscountess Brookeborough, DBE, the daughter of Captain and Mrs. Charles Warden Sergison, married Sir Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough (b. 9 June 1888 - d. 18 August 1973), son of Sir Arthur Douglas Brooke, 4th Bt. and Gertrude Isabella Batson, on 3 June 1919.
Sir Basil and Lady Cynthia Brooke had three children, two of whom, having died during WWII, she and her husband survived.
She was Senior Commandant of the Auxiliary Territorial Service during the Second World War. Cynthia Brooke was styled as Viscountess Brookeborough on 1 July 1952. She was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1959.
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[edit] Children
- Lieutenant Basil Julian David Brooke (b. 18 April 1920 - d. March 1943)
- Sir John Warden Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough (b. 9 November 1922 - d. 5 March 1987)
- Lieutenant Henry Alan Brooke (b. 29 October 1923 - d. April 1945)
[edit] Death
She died on 2 March 1970 of undisclosed causes.
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[edit] References
- Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 802.
- Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 526.
