Cynthia Brooke, Viscountess Brookeborough
Dame Cynthia Mary Sergison Brooke, Viscountess Brookeborough (1897 - 1970), was the daughter of Captain and Mrs. Charles Warden Sergison.
Born in 1897, she married Viscount Brookeborough (9 June 1888 – 18 August 1973), son of Sir Arthur Douglas Brooke, 4th Bt. and Gertrude Isabella Batson, on 3 June 1919.
Lord and Lady Brookeborough had three sons, two of whom were killed in action during World War II. Only one son of the three survived his parents. They were:
- Lieutenant Basil Julian David Brooke (18 April 1920 - March 1943 (Killed in action)
- John Warden Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough (9 November 1922 – 5 March 1987)
- Lieutenant Henry Alan Brooke (29 October 1923 - April 1945) (Killed in action)
In World War II she was Senior Commandant of the Auxiliary Territorial Service during the Second World War. Cynthia Brooke was styled as Viscountess Brookeborough from 1 July 1952, when her husband was created Viscount Brookeborough. In 1959 she was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
She died on 2 March 1970 at 72. After her death Lord Brookeborough married Sarah Eileen Bell, daughter of Henry Healey, of Belfast, and widow of Cecil Armstrong Calvert FRCS, director of neurosurgery at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
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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.