C. E. P. (Charles Ernest Pelham) Brooks

Charles Ernest Pelham Brooks was a British meteorologist and climatologist born on November 10, 1888, and he is best remembered as C. E. P. Brooks. He spent most of his professional life with the British Meteorological Office, where he worked for more than four decades and rose to become Assistant Director in charge of the Climatological Division.

Brooks earned lasting respect for his research on climatic change over historical and geological timescales. Obituaries and reference sources describe him as one of the leading climatologists of his time, and his best-known book, Climate Through the Ages, became a classic in the field. He also wrote other works for general readers and specialists, including The Evolution of Climate and Climate in Everyday Life.

He died at Ferring, Sussex, on December 14, 1957, aged 69. Reliable biographical sources on him are fairly limited, but the available record shows a careful, influential scientist whose writing helped shape early modern thinking about climate history.