Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Harold Brooks-Baker (16 November 1933-5 March 2005), was an American-British financier, journalist and publisher, and self-proclaimed expert on genealogy. Born a U.S. citizen, the son of a Washington, D.C. attorney, he attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and Harvard University, in the same class as Ted Kennedy. He married (and divorced) a French countess, Irene Le Gras du Luart de Montsaulnin, and they had two daughters. In 1997 he remarried to Catherine Neville-Rolfe. Brooks-Baker preferred to be known as "Brookie".