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Trend, Lord.1981."Brook, Norman Craven, Baron Normanbrook". In the Dictionary of National Biography 1961–1970, edited by E.T.Williams and C.S.Nicholls. Oxford:Oxford University Press.
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The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms, ed. L. G. Pine, Heraldry Today, 1972, p. 205
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Churchill and Brook were colleagues during the Second World War and Churchill's 1951-1955 government. Brook was his adviser. Brook was a member of
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Lord Normanbrook married Ida Mary, daughter of E. A. Goshawk, in 1929. He died in June 1967, aged 65, when the barony became extinct.
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Brook joined the Home Civil Service in 1925 and attained the grade of Principal in 1933 and of Assistant Secretary in 1938. He was
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that Brook was "very quick... Came up with a front pocket stuffed full of pens. Soon disappeared inside. Learned the tricks."
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from 1943 to 1945, Additional Secretary to the Cabinet from 1945 to 1946, and
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Seldon Abthony.1981.Churchill's Indian Summer. London:Hodder and Stoughton.
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in the County of London. Between 1964 and 1967 he was Chairman of the
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thepeerage.com Norman Craven Brook, 1st and last Baron Normanbrook
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as a secretary to the treasury in 1956. He served there to 1962.
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between 1947 and 1962 as well as joint permanent secretary to
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from 1947 to 1962. He was also joint permanent secretary to
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between 1946 and 1964, was a British civil servant. He was
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from 1956 to 1962. Brook was appointed a Companion of the
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Norman Craven Brook
The Right Honourable
GCB
PC
Cabinet Secretary
George VI
Elizabeth II
Clement Attlee
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Sir Edward Bridges
Sir Burke Trend
Alma mater
Wadham College, Oxford
GCB
PC
Cabinet Secretary
HM Treasury
Home Civil Service
Bristol
Bradford
West Yorkshire
Ministry of Health
cabinet-maker
Harold Macmillan
crofting
Daniel MacMillan
Macmillan Publishers
Wolverhampton Grammar School

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