Raymond Percival Brookes, Baron Brookes (10 April 1909 – 31 July 2002) was a British industrialist.
Brookes became the Managing Director of GKN in 1964 and the group's Chairman and Chief Executive in 1965. He retired in 1974 and was made GKN's Life President. [1]
Brookes was knighted in 1971. On 14 January 1976, he was created a life peer, as Baron Brookes, of West Bromwich in the County of West Midlands. [2] He sat as a Conservative until 1990, when he left the Conservative Party in protest against the removal of Margaret Thatcher. [3] He then sat as a crossbencher. [4]
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Raymond Percival Brookes, Baron Brookes (10 April 1909 – 31 July 2002) was a British industrialist.
Brookes became the Managing Director of GKN in 1964 and the group's Chairman and Chief Executive in 1965. He retired in 1974 and was made GKN's Life President. [1]
Brookes was knighted in 1971. On 14 January 1976, he was created a life peer, as Baron Brookes, of West Bromwich in the County of West Midlands. [2] He sat as a Conservative until 1990, when he left the Conservative Party in protest against the removal of Margaret Thatcher. [3] He then sat as a crossbencher. [4]
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