Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke
Captain Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, Tuan Muda of Sarawak (b. 8 August 1876 at Kuching - 15 September 1965, Weybridge, Surrey[1])
The son of The Rajah of Sarawak he was heir presumptive to his brother, The third Rajah of Sarawak, he held the title of Tuan Muda (literally "Little Lord") and the style of His Highness.
He was educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was Captain of the University Boat Club. He went on to serve in the First World War and act as Special Commissioner from Sarawak to the UK.
He married, on 28 June 1904, Khair un-nisa binti 'Abdu'llah, (8 January 1884 - 12 June 1952), née Gladys Milton Palmer, who converted to Islam at the Paris Mosque in 1939. She was the only child of Sir Walter Palmer, 1st Baronet MP and his wife, Jean, Lady Palmer, and as wife of the Tuan Muda took the title of Dayang Muda and the style of "Her Highness".
They had one son, Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, sometime Rajah Muda of Sarawak, and two daughters; Dayang Jean Margaret Palmer Brooke, Lady Halsey and Dayang Elizabeth Brooke, Mrs. Terence Maunsell.
On his death he was buried at Sheepstor Churchyard, Devon.
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