page_title: Charles Brett
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Brett / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: A panoramic view of the interior of St. Mary's Parish Church, Comber, taken from the chancel steps. The stained glass window in the South Transept has not yet been installed (it was installed in December 2008, the photo was taken the previous September)
context_page_description: Sir Charles Edward Bainbridge Brett CBE KBE was a British solicitor, journalist, author and founding member, and first chairman, of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society. He was known to many simply as Charlie Brett.
context_section_description: In 1971, he was appointed to the board of the newly created Northern Ireland Housing Executive.  He served as Chairman for five years from 1979, during which time 50,000 dwellings were built.  He was asked to compile a list of historic buildings in Jersey in 1975. In 1986, Brett became the first chairman of the International Fund for Ireland, established to encourage investment in Ireland.
  Brett was also involved in Northern Irish politics, being chairman of the Northern Ireland Labour Party for a time
  In 1981 he received a CBE, this was followed by a Knighthood in 1990.
  Brett was married and had three sons, and seven grandchildren. His church memorial is located along those of his family in the Comber Church of Ireland Parish Church of St. Mary, in Comber, North County Down.
caption: Interior of St. Mary's Church of Ireland
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "150", "Image YResolution": "150", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Microsoft Pro Photo Tools", "Image DateTime": "2008:09:13 15:56:27", "Image ExifOffset": "2256", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "N", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[54, 1650361/50000, 0]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "W", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[5, 892303/20000, 0]", "Image GPSInfo": "4370", "Image XPAuthor": "Daniel Williams", "Image Padding": "[]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "1/72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "1/72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "4598", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "2257", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3000", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "851", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}