[4][5] He also had one previous daughter, Gale (b.1940) with Joan Mary Murray (later the mother of novelist Lisa St Aubin de Terán).
Upon his death in 1995 he was cremated and his ashes laid to rest in the graveyard of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, in the village of East Bergholt, Suffolk, UK, where he and his wife Catherine had lived for over 40 years.
He supplied cover artwork for, amongst others, Anthony Powell, Henry Williamson and H. E. Bates, with whom he collaborated on numerous works including the Larkin family series of novels, The Cruise of the Breadwinner and Love for Lydia.
[6] Of Broom-Lynne's series of dust jackets for Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time Powell's biographer, Hilary Spurling, observed, that Broom-Lynne produced "a series of bold, grainy, instantly recognizable dust jackets that made Music of Time look quite unlike other novels.
[14] This was followed by a number of plays including The Trigon in 1962, which received mixed reviews although the theatre critics in The New Statesman,[15] The New York Post[16] and Newsday[17] were positive.