Lieutenat Colonel Thomas Humphrey Brooke (January 31, 1914 - December 24, 1988), British civil servant, art historian and rose expert. In 1946 He married Nathalie Countess Benckendorff (September 9, 1923 Moscow - September 16, 2019 London), "cultural ambassador", daughter of Count Constantine Alexandrovich Benckendorff (September 15, 1880 - September 25, 1959 Claydon, Suffolk) and Maria Alexandrovna Korchinska (February 17, 1895 Moscow - April 17, 1979 London), Russian harpist, and granddaughter of Count Alexander von Benckendorff (August 1, 1849 - January 11, 1917) and Countess Sophie Petrovna Shuvalova (October 16, 1857 St. Petersburg - June 1, 1928 Clayton, Suffolk). "Sophie's Perpetual" was dedicated later to Countess Sophie.
