Brendan Bracken's Room

Brendan Bracken was Churchill’s Minister of Information from 1941. His room is one of the sequence of rooms, now known as the ‘Churchill Suite’ into which the Cabinet War Rooms expanded in 1941 to provide, amongst others, living quarters for Winston Churchill’s private office staff.

Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken 1901-1958
Bracken, who became MP for Paddington at the age of twenty nine, was Churchill's most devoted, and sometimes only, follower in Parliament during the "Wilderness Years". He became Churchill's Parliamentary Private Secretary in September 1939 and Minister of Information in July 1941. In the 1945 'Caretaker' Government Bracken was appointed to Churchill's old post as First Lord of the Admiralty. He lost his seat in the 1945 General Election, and thereafter concentrated on business affairs rather than politics. Bracken proved a highly effective 'right hand man' for Churchill throughout the war as well as being a very successful minister. He was a man of great erudition and wit, for example nicknaming the pompous Sir John Anderson, "God's Butler". When he died in 1958, Churchill wept, "poor dear Brendan".