Robin Brook


Sir Ralph Ellis "Robin" Brook was a British merchant banker and a director of the Bank of England. He was knighted in the 1974 New Year Honours. His wife Helen Brook was founder of the Brook Advisory Centres.
As a fencer, he competed at the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics.
The son of a surgeon, Brook was educated, through scholarships, at Eton College and subsequently at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied under Maynard Keynes, earning a double first in Economics.