- In 1979 he was lucky to escape with his life when he was one of the seven people on board Earl Mountbatten's small fishing boat the Shadow V, in the harbour of Mullaghmore Bay, County Sligo, when it was blown up by a bomb planted beneath the steering wheel and remotely set off by the Provisional IRA. Mountbatten, Brabourne's mother, the Dowager Lady Brabourne, his 14-year-old son Nicholas and a local boy working as crew were killed, and Brabourne, his wife and another son, Tim, were all badly injured.
- A descendant of English author Jane Austen, through her brother Edward Knight.
- Member of the House of Lords until the reforms of 1999.
- Son-in-law of the First Sea Lord, Lord Louis Mountbatten which helped getting Royal Naval assistance for various movies.
- In 1943 he succeeded to the title of seventh Baron Brabourne after his elder brother, Norton, was killed by German gunfire whilst attempting to escape from a prisoner-of-war train during World War II.
- Awarded the CBE (Commander of the order of the British Empire) in 1993.
- He suffered a severe heart attack in 1962.
- He was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of his outstanding contribution to film culture.
- In late 1965 it was announced that he and Anthony Havelock Allan would produce A Bomb in the Attic.
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