Sir Timothy Gerald Martin Brooks, KCVO (1929–2014) was an English landowner, farmer, politician and public servant. Brooks' father, the Hon. Herbert William Brooks (1890–1974), was a younger son of the 2nd Baron Crawshaw. After

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, he attended the

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, completing a National Diploma in Agriculture in 1951. That year, he married the Hon. Ann Fremantle, daughter of the 4th Baron Cottesloe; when Lord Cottesloe died in 1958, she inherited Wistow Hall and its connected estate."History of Wistow"
''Wistow''. Retrieved 6 June 2019. The couple spent many years renovating the hall, improving the estate's farms and organising the Wistow Rural Centre
''Kibworth and District Chronicle'', issue 363 (June 2014). Retrieved 6 June 2019. (which Brooks had established in 1953). Brooks became involved in local affairs, becoming a

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in 1960 and serving as the

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for the 1979–80 year. He sat on Harborough District Council from 1975 to 1989 and chaired it in the 1983–84 year. In 1989, he was appointed

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. Between then and his retirement in 2003, he received two honorary degrees (from

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and the

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) and was appointed a Knight of the

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."Brooks, Sir Timothy (Gerald Martin)"
''Who's Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 6 June 2019. On retiring, Brooks was appointed a Knight Commander of the

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. He died in 2014. His son Richard served as High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 2012.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brooks, Timothy 1929 births 2014 deaths People educated at Eton College 21st-century English landowners Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order High sheriffs of Leicestershire Lord-lieutenants of Leicestershire Knights of the Order of St John