Background
He was born in Ross Bay, British Columbia, the eldest son of John Brodie, of Hamsell Manor, Sussex. He married in 1909, Mabel Hart, a daughter of Sir Robert Hart.
He was born in Ross Bay, British Columbia, the eldest son of John Brodie, of Hamsell Manor, Sussex. He married in 1909, Mabel Hart, a daughter of Sir Robert Hart.
He was educated at Winchester School.
They had two sons.
Standing for the first time, he was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for the Reigate Division of Surrey, at the 1906 General Election, gaining the seat from the Conservatives. He served just one parliamentary term, losing the seat back to the Conservatives at the General Election of January 1910. He did not stand for parliament again.
He was a Major in the Middlesex Yeomanry (Duke of Cambridge’s Hussars).
During World War One, he served in Egypt in 1915-1916 and France in 1917. He was a director of Ohlsson’s Cape Breweries Limited, and of Ocean Marine Insurance Company
Limited. He was Chairman of the Delagoa Bay Agency Company
Limited and Chairman of the East Africa Engineering & Trading Company Limited. He was on the Council of the London Chamber of Commerce, and Chairman of the South African Section from 1943-1950.
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He was a member of the Liberal Eighty Club.
