Arthur Harold John Brook (1907 – 20 January 1985) was an English

brewer Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer, ...

and brewing executive who served as President of the

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Life

Arthur Harold John Brook was born in

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in 1907, the son of Samuel Brook, a sugar merchant. He went to

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between 1919 and 1925 and then spent a year at the Cotton Exchange in Manchester, before entering Duttons Brewery as a pupil in 1926."A. H. J. Brook"
''Journal of the Institute of Brewing'', vol. 91 (1985), p. 362 He was the assistant brewer there by 1934, when he took up an equivalent post at Oldham Brewery. By the end of the year, he was its Head Brewer. In 1938, he became a director at a company of maltsters called Edward Sutcliffe. In 1947, he returned to Duttons as a director and took up the same post at Oldham in 1956; that year, he also became the latter's Chairman. In 1982, Oldham merged with Boddington's and he was given a seat on their Board, but retired two years later. Brook was National Chairman of the Allied Brewery Traders' Association in 1961 and became President of the

three years later. Between 1971 and 1982, he was President of the Manchester Brewery School, having long served it as Honorary Treasurer. Brook married Helen Margaret "Margie" in 1936 and the couple had three sons—Patrick, Paul and Philip—and one daughter, Elizabeth. His wife predeceased him, and he died on 30 January 1985, survived by his children."Deaths", ''Times'' (London), 2 February 1985, p. 34

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1907 births 1985 deaths English brewers 20th-century English businesspeople {{England-business-bio-stub