Harold Brooks Baker (later Brooks-Baker; 16 November 1933 – 5 March 2005), was an American-British financier, journalist, and publisher, and self-proclaimed expert on genealogy.
Early life and education
Born a United States citizen, the son of (Charles) Silas Baker (1888–1943), a Washington, D.C. attorney, and his wife, Elizabeth Lambert, Brooks-Baker contracted polio as a child, and nearly died; he never fully recovered from the physical effects of this illness. He attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and Harvard University, in the same class as Ted Kennedy.
Career
Brooks-Baker became a bond trader and settled in London in the 1960s. In 1974 he and his business partners took over Debrett's, publisher of several titles on British aristocracy including Debrett’s Peerage & Baronetage.
