Robin Brook

For the New Zealand rugby player, see Robin Brooke. For people with a similar name, see Robin Brooks (disambiguation).

Sir Ralph Ellis "Robin" Brook CMG OBE (19 June 1908 – 25 October 1998)^[1] was a British merchant banker and a director of the Bank of England. His wife Helen Brook was founder of the Brook Advisory Centres.^[1]

Sir

Robin Brook

CMG OBE

Personal information
Born	(1908-06-19)19 June 1908 Southwark, London, England
Died	25 October 1998(1998-10-25) (aged 90) Westminster, London, England
Sport
Sport	Fencing

As a fencer, he competed at the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics.^[2] In 1936, he won the sabre title at the British Fencing Championships.^[3]

The son of a surgeon, Brook was educated, through scholarships, at Eton College and subsequently at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied under Maynard Keynes, earning a double first in Economics.^[1]

Honours

Brook was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on 2 August 1945,^[4] and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1954 New Year Honours.^[5]

He was knighted in the 1974 New Year Honours for services to export, in his role as President of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce.^[6]