Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Humphrey Brooke CVO (31 January 1914 – 24 December 1988) was a British civil servant and art historian.
He was a Monuments Man during the Second World War, then deputy director of London's Tate Gallery and secretary of the Royal Academy from 1952 to 1968.
[5] Serious manic depression led to his early retirement, after which he became "an internationally acknowledged expert on roses".
[1][7] He studied many other historical figures who may have suffered from manic depression, and was particularly interested in Somerset County Cricket Club batsman Harold Gimblett.
[1] Brooke married Nathalie Benckendorff, who he met in Austria after the war while working as a monuments man.