 On 3 December 2007 Lord Brennan again became unwell in the Chamber of the House of Lords.Having been fitted with a pacemaker at St Thomas' Hospital, he was thanking peers and staff who had been involved in the occasion when he was last taken ill, when he fell back in his seat.In 1968 he married a Spanish national, Pilar Sánchez Moya, with whom he has four sons.