Anthony Brooke
Anthony Brooke | |
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Rajah Muda of Sarawak | |
Wanganui, New Zealand | |
Burial | |
Spouse | Kathleen Mary Hudden (div. 1965) Brigitte Keller (m. 1982–2011) |
Issue | James Brooke Angela Brooke Celia Brooke |
Father | Bertram Brooke |
Mother | Gladys Milton Palmer |
Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke (10 December 1912 – 2 March 2011) was appointed the Rajah Muda of Sarawak (heir apparent; Malay: Yang Amat Mulia Tuan Rajah Muda Sarawak) on 25 August 1937, by his uncle, Rajah Vyner of Sarawak, the third and last of the ruling White Rajahs.
Brooke was the son of Bertram, Tuan Muda of Sarawak and Gladys Milton Palmer, daughter of Sir Walter Palmer, 1st Baronet, and heir to part of the Huntley & Palmers biscuit fortune.[1]
Background
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Brooke grew up in Britain and was educated at Eton College; Trinity College, Cambridge; and the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London. Throughout the 1930s he served the Sarawak civil service in various sectors, including the Land and Registry Department, and as a magistrate.
He enlisted in the British Army as a
Appointed as heir apparent with the title of Rajah Muda of Sarawak on 25 August 1937, Brooke was granted the personal style of His Highness. Having been responsible for administering Sarawak between 1939 and 1940, in the absence of the Rajah, he was deprived of his styles and titles on 17 January 1940, then dismissed and expelled from the state in September 1941, following a dispute with his uncle, Rajah Vyner, over his marriage to a commoner, Kathleen Hudden, sister of a Sarawak government official.[1][2]
In 1944, Brooke was restored as Rajah Muda, after consultations between his uncle and his father. He was, however, deprived of his titles again on 12 October 1945.
In 1946, Rajah Vyner ceded Sarawak to the British
In 1951, Brooke withdrew from the independence campaign, although he remained, according to some loyalists, the
In 2013, the acting British high commissioner to Malaysia attended Brooke's reburial in Sarawak and offered an apology on behalf of Great Britain, clearing Anthony Brooke's name of any involvement.[6]
Personal life
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Brooke was married firstly, in
1. James Bertram Lionel Brooke (16 August 1940 – 27 May 2017
- Laurence Nicholas Brooke (born 1983 in London), was educated at Bruntsfield Primary School, Edinburgh, and The High School, Dublin.
- Trinity College, Dublin. He had married Kate Marie Brook and has two children.
- Jago Charles Bertram Brooke
- Charles Argus Michael Brooke
2. Angela Carole Brooke (1942–1986)
3. Celia Margaret Brooke (3 November 1944 – 17 December 2011), married first to David Ray Harper Inayat Khan (grandson of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat
- Sura Brooke Harper, who has two sons;
- Leandro Kubilay and James Ray.
Anthony Brooke lived for various periods in London, in
Brooke died at his home in Wanganui on 2 March 2011, at the age of 98.
References
- ^ a b c d "Obituary: Anthony Brooke". The Daily Telegraph. 6 March 2011. Archived from the original on 9 March 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
- ^ "End of Absolutism". Time. 6 October 1941.
- ^ a b c Mike Thomson (12 March 2012). "Radio 4's investigative history – The stabbed governor of Sarawak". BBC News. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
- ^ a b Mike Thomson (14 March 2012). "The stabbed governor of Sarawak". BBC News. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
- ^ Former Rajah Muda recalls days in Sarawak Angelfire Retrieved 26 March 2023
- ^ "Farewell to the Crown Prince – BorneoPost Online | Largest English Daily in Borneo". Borneo Post. 22 September 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ^ "James 'Lionel' Brooke, scion of the 'White Rajahs' of Sarawak – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 3 June 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
- ^ David Ray Harper Inayat Khan is the son of Claire Inayat Khan (a.k.a. Claire Ray Harper), youngest child of Inayat Khan. (Khair-un-nisa "Claire" Inayat Khan, The Sufi Remembrance Project.) Claire Ray Harper and David Ray Harper authored We Rubies Four, about the four children of Inayat Khan "We Rubies Four; the Memoirs of Claire Ray Harper (Khairunisa Inayat Khan)". Archived from the original on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
- ^ "Wanganui home gifted to peace group", Merania Karauria, 31 May 2011
- ^ "Last Rajah Muda to be buried in Sarawak", Borneo Post, 31 August 2013.
- ^ "Farewell to the Crown Prince", Borneo Post, 22 September 2013.