William Henry Brookfield, curate of St. Luke's, Berwick Street, and Jane Octavia, daughter of Sir Charles Elton, 6th Baronet.

During his time in parliament, he volunteered for active service in the Second Boer War, and was appointed to command a battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry,[4] leaving Southampton for South Africa in early April 1900 on the SS Carisbrooke Castle.

[7] In 1910 he became British Consul at Savannah, Georgia, which was a shipping point for the cotton trade between the U.S. and Great Britain.

He was appointed a Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England (KGStJ) in August 1901.

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