Christopher Brooke (British Army officer)

Brigadier-General Christopher Robert Ingham Brooke, CMG, DSO (4 July 1869 – 28 December 1948) was a British soldier and Conservative MP for Pontefract from 1924 to 1929.

[1] He was born in Thornhill, Yorkshire in 1869, the son of Ingham Brooke, and was educated at Winchester College.

[1][2] Brooke was a major when he fought in the Second Boer War, where he was in command of 2nd Mounted infantry, which in 1902 was based in the Transvaal Colony.

From 1924 to 1935 Brooke was Honorary Colonel of the 5th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.

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