Charles Fletcher-Cooke

Sir Charles Fletcher Fletcher-Cooke (5 May 1914 – 24 February 2001) was a British politician and lawyer whom served as the constitutional adviser to Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. Early life Fletcher-Cooke was born into a professional London family, though one that was financially diminished because of his father's death from wounds received in the Gallipoli Campaign. He was the son of Charles Arthur Cooke (1883–1914) and Gwendoline May, née Bradford (1883–1977). His elder brother, Sir John Fletcher-Cooke, was MP for Southampton Test from 1964 to 1966. He was educated at Malvern College and Peterhouse, Cambridge where he was president of the Cambridge Union in 1936. He was an Apostle and a member of the Communist Party. He became a barrister and was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1938, becoming a King's Counsel after the war. He served in the RNVR during World War II and was a legal advisor to the British Government at the Danube Conference in 1948.