Background
Born a United States. citizen, the son of (Charles) Silas Baker (1888-1943), a Washington, District of Columbia
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Harold Brooks-Baker
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Education
Attorney, and his wife Elizabeth Lambert, he attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and Harvard University, in the same class as Ted Kennedy.
Career
In 1997 he remarried to Catherine Neville-Rolfe. Brooks-Baker preferred to be known as "Brookie" (to the extent that the record of his death in 2005 was made under both his real name and "Brookie Brooks-Baker"). He became a bond trader and settled in London in the 1960s.
In 1974 Brooks-Baker and his business partners took over Debrett"s, publisher of several titles on British aristocracy including Debrett’s Peerage & Baronetage.
In 1984 he moved to Burke"s Peerage Partnership as director of publishing. The partnership had been in poor financial health for years and had already sold its flagship publication, Burke"s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage.
Brooks-Baker was never associated with Burke"s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage but oversaw the publication of books about genealogy and the aristocracy including Burke"s Presidential Families of the United States of America. The company"s major business was genealogical research.
As public relations for Burke"s, he was a frequent commentator on the British Royal family and aristocracy in the British press
He was famous for his ostentatious and oft-disputed pronouncements regarding British royalty, and for his advocacy of the most royal candidate theory of United States. presidential succession. He was once investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an alleged scam in which he took money from people by claiming he would help them verify whether they were related to a billionaire who had died without known heirs. He was often credited as "H. B. Brooks-Baker".
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United States