Harold Brooks-Baker
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.Born a United States citizen, the son of (Charles) Silas Baker (1888–1943),[1] a Washington, D.C. attorney, and his wife, Elizabeth Lambert,[2] Brooks-Baker contracted polio as a child, and nearly died; he never fully recovered from the physical effects of this illness.The partnership had been in poor financial health for years and had already sold its flagship publication, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage.He was famous for his ostentatious and oft-disputed pronouncements regarding British royalty, and for his advocacy of the most royal candidate theory of U.S. presidential succession.He adopted the "Brooks-" part of his surname when the French authorities refused him permission to add the family name "Brooks" as a middle name for his daughters.