Arthur Montagu Brookfield, KGStJ (18 March 1853 – 3 March 1940) was a British Army officer, diplomat, author and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1903.
At the 1885 general election, Brookfield was elected Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Rye.[3]
In parliament he was responsible for the Uniforms Act of 1894. During his time in parliament, he volunteered for active service in the Second Boer War, and was appointed to command a battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry,[4] leaving Southampton for South Africa in early April 1900 on the SS Carisbrooke Castle.[5]
Brookfield left his parliamentary seat in 1903 to become British Consul at Montevideo,[6] and in 1904 transferred as Consul to Danzig, then in West Prussia.[7] In 1910 he became British Consul at Savannah, Georgia, which was a shipping point for the cotton trade between the U.S. and Great Britain.
Brookfield wrote five novels, a book of advice on giving speeches and an autobiographic sketch:
The Bachelor (1879)
Post Mortem: A Story (1881)
The Autobiography of Thomas Allen V3 (1882)
The Apparition (1884)
Simiocracy (1884)
The Speaker's ABC (1892)
Annals of a chequered life (1930)
Family
Brookfield married in 1877 Olive Harriet Hamilton, daughter of James Murray Hamilton of Preston, N.B. and of Buffalo, U.S.A.[2] His brother Charles Brookfield was an actor playwright and journalist.
^Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1989]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 407. ISBN0-900178-27-2.
