Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

BRODIE, George (youngest son of Wm. Brodie of Chesterhill, East Lothian, farmer). b. Chesterhill 1786; ed. at high sch. and Univ. of Edin.; member of faculty of advocates 1811; historiographer royal of Scotland 1836 to death; author of A history of the British empire from the accession of Charles I to the Restoration 4 vols. 1822, new ed. 3 vols. 1866; edited Stair’s Institutes of the law of Scotland. d. Percy house, Randolph road, London 22 Jany. 1867.

BRODIE, James Campbell John. b. 26 March 1843; ed. at Rugby and St. Andrew’s; lord lieutenant of Nairnshire 26 June 1873 to death. d. Moss close, Manor road, Bournemouth 25 Feb. 1880.

BRODIE, John. b. Edinburgh; served at hospital Scutari during Russian war; went to New York 1869; city editor of New York Dispatch; contributed largely to columns of the Spirit of the Times. d. New York 29 Jany. 1873 aged 32.

BRODIE, Peter Bellinger (brother of Sir B. C. Brodie, 1 Baronet). b. Winterslow, Wilts. 20 Aug. 1778; pupil of Charles Butler; a conveyancer; barrister I.T. 5 May 1815; drew charter of King’s College London 1829; a real property comr. 1828, drew the part relating to Fines and Recoveries of first report made May 1829, the part relating to Probate of wills of second report made June 1830, and the part relating to Copyhold and Ancient Demesne made April 1833; drew bill for abolishing Fines and Recoveries which became law 1833; author of A treatise on a tax on successions to real as well as personal properly 1850. d. 49 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 8 Sep. 1854. Law Review xxi, 348–54 (1855).

BRODIE, William. b. 2 July 1799; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen; lord lieutenant of Nairnshire 1824 to death. d. Brodie castle, Forres, Morayshire 6 June 1873.

BRODIE, William (brother of Alexander Brodie 1830–67). b. Banff 22 Jany. 1815; studied in the Trustees school of design, Edinburgh 1846–52; an associate of Royal Scottish Academy 1857, member 1859, sec. 8 Nov. 1876; executed portrait busts of most of the celebrities of his day; executed 4 busts of the Queen, colossal statue of Prince Consort at Perth, and one of the representative groups in bronze, for Scottish memorial to Prince Consort in Edin. d. Douglas lodge, Edin. 30 Oct. 1881. Biograph ii, 218 (1879).

BRODIE, William Bird. b. 26 Sep. 1780; a banker at Salisbury; M.P. for Salisbury 14 Dec. 1832 to April 1843. d. Swanage, Dorset 24 Oct. 1863.

BRODRIBB, William Perrin. Pupil of Abernethy at St. Bartholomew’s hospital London; L.S.A. 1822, M.R.C.S. 1823, L.R.C.P. Edin. 1859; surgeon to Magdalen hospital, London; chairman of court of examiners of Society of Apothecaries 1860–1, sec. to the court 1865 to death. d. 7 Bloomsbury sq. London 8 Jany. 1869 aged 68.

BROGDEN, Rev. James. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; R. of Great Henny, Essex 1841–5; C. of St. Michaels, St. Albans 1845–8; V. of Deddington, Oxon 1848 to death; author of Illustrations of the liturgy and ritual of the united church of England and Ireland 3 vols. 1842; Catholic safeguards against the errors, novelties, and corruptions of the church of Rome 3 vols. 1851. d. Deddington 11 Feb. 1864 aged 58.

BROKE, Sir Arthur Brooke de Capell, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Richard Brooke-Supple, 1 baronet 1758–1829). b. Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 22 Oct. 1791; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; captain 17 Dragoons 26 Feb. 1818 placed on h.p. same date; changed his name from Brooke to Broke; F.R.S. 29 May 1823; founded the Raleigh Club, (forerunner of Royal Geographical Society), first regular meeting took place at the Thatched house 7 Feb. 1827, in 1854 the name of Raleigh was dropped and it became Geographical club; succeeded 27 Nov. 1829; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1843; author of Travels through Sweden, Norway and Finmark to the North Cape 1823; A winter in Lapland and Sweden 1827; Sketches in Spain and Morocco 2 vols. 1831. d. Oakley hall near Kettering 6 Dec. 1858. C. Markham’s Fifty years work of the Royal Geographical Society (1881) 15–18.

BROKE, Charles Acton. b. 30 June 1818; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1836, captain 17 Feb. 1854 to death; quartered in island of Zante; well known to all H.M.’s ships, merchantships and yachts as “Signal Broke” as he challenged all vessels passing Zante from the signal posts and extracted news from them; supported 40 or 50 starving families in Zante during winters of 1852–54. d. Ayr 7 Sep. 1855.

BROKE, Horatio George. b. 4 June 1790; captain 58 Foot 18 March 1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; permanent assistant quartermaster general 4 July 1823; deputy quartermaster general Nova Scotia 20 July 1830 to 12 Sep. 1834; aide-de-camp to the Queen 23 Nov. 1841 to 20 June 1854; colonel 88 Foot 24 Dec. 1858 to death; L.G. 15 June 1860. d. Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 30 Aug. 1860.

BROKE, Sir Philip Vere, 2 Baronet. b. 15 Jany. 1804; entered navy Dec. 1819; captain 12 Sep. 1835; succeeded 2 June 1841; sheriff of Suffolk 1844. d. Broke hall near Ipswich 24 Feb. 1855.

BROKE, Sir William de Capell, 3 Baronet. b. Deal, Kent 12 June 1801; ed. at Rugby and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1835; barrister I.T. 25 May 1827; sheriff of Rutland 1852; succeeded 6 Dec. 1858. d. The Elms, Market Harborough 8 March 1886. Law Times lxxx, 364 (1886).

BROMBY, Rev. John Healey. b. 1771; ed. at Hull gr. sch. and Sid. Suss. coll. Cam., 17 wrangler 1792, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, fellow of his coll.; V. of Trinity, Hull 1797–1866; V. of Cheswardine, Salop 1821–67; master of the Charterhouse, Hull 1849 to death; author of various sermons, essays and lectures published in Hull. d. Hull 25 March 1868, the oldest clergyman in Church of England.

BROME, Frederick. Governor of military prison on Windmill hill, Gibraltar 1846 to Dec. 1868, and of military prison at Weedon Northampton 1869 which was abolished same year; well known as a palæontologist. d. 4 March 1870. Nature i, 509 (1870).

BROMEHEAD, Rev. William Crawford (youngest son of Rev. A. C. Bromehead of Newbold, Warws.) Educ. at Repton and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853, B.D. 1879, chaplain of his college 1857–9; chaplain in Bengal 1859–79; one of founders of Indian church aid association and the first hon. sec.; chaplain in ord. at Kensington palace, London 8 July 1879 to death; author of A short account of the lives of the bishops of Calcutta 1876; Step by step or the devout communicant led through the Church to the vision of God 1878. d. Kensington palace 6 May 1884 aged 59.

BROMFIELD, William Arnold (son of Rev. John Arnold Bromfield of Boldre in the New Forest who d. 1801). b. Boldre 1801; entered Univ. of Glasgow 1821, M.D. 1823; travelled through Germany, Italy and France 1826–30; went to West Indies 1844 and to North America 1846; embarked for the East, Sep. 1850; author of List of plants likely to be found wild in the Isle of Wight 1840; Botanico-topographical map of the Isle of Wight 1850; Letters from Egypt and Syria 1856. d. of malignant typhus fever at Damascus 9 Oct. 1851. Hooker’s Kew garden miscell. iii, 373–82 (1851); Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii, 182–3 (1855); W. A. Bromfield’s Flora Vectensis 1856, portrait.

BROMHEAD, Sir Edmund Gonville, 3 Baronet. b. Birch grove, Ballinasloe 22 Jany. 1791; ensign 8 Foot 18 Jany. 1808; lieut. 54 Foot 23 March 1809; captain 19 Foot 21 Nov. 1822 to 13 May 1826 when placed on h.p. as major; served in Walcheren expedition, the Peninsula and at Waterloo; led the forlorn hope at Cambray 24 June 1815; succeeded 14 March 1855. d. Thurlby hall near Lincoln 25 Oct 1870.

BROMHEAD, Sir Edward Thomas Ffrench, 2 Baronet (eldest son of Sir Gonville Bromhead, 1 baronet 1758–1822). b. Dublin 26 March 1789; ed. at Gonville and Caius. coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; barrister I.T. 28 May 1813; succeeded 11 May 1822; F.R.S. 13 March 1817, F.L.S. 1844. d. Thurlby hall 14 March 1855.

BROMLEY, Sir Richard Madox (2 son of Samuel Bromley, Surgeon R.N. who d. 1835). b. 11 June 1813; ed. at Lewisham gr. sch.; entered Admiralty department of Civil service 1829; sec. to Comrs. for auditing public accounts 6 June 1848 to Feb. 1854; accountant general of the Navy Feb. 1854 to March 1863; comr. of Greenwich hospital 28 March 1863 to death; C.B. 13 Sep. 1854, K.C.B. 6 Sep. 1858. d. The Marina, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 30 Nov. 1865.

BROMLEY, Sir Robert Howe, 3 Baronet (only son of Sir George Smith, 2 baronet 1753–1808, who assumed surname of Bromley 1778). b. Stoke near Newark 28 Nov. 1778; entered navy 26 Dec. 1791; captain 28 April 1802; placed on h.p. 1809; admiral 17 Aug. 1851; succeeded his father 17 Aug. 1808. d. Stoke 8 July 1857.

BROMLEY, Valentine Walter (eld. son of Wm. Bromley of St. John’s Wood, London). b. London 14 Feb. 1848; contributed many illustrations to Illustrated London News; an associate of Institute of painters in water colours; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A. and 22 at Suffolk st. gallery 1865–77; his picture of Troilus and Cressida is engraved in Art Journal 1873. d. Fallows Green, Harpenden 30 April 1877. I.L.N. lxx, 469 (1877), portrait.

BROMLEY-DAVENPORT, William (eld. son of Rev. Walter Davenport-Bromley of Wooton hall, Staffs. 1787–1862). b. Capesthorn near Crewe 20 Aug. 1821; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut. col. Staffordshire yeomanry cavalry 13 July 1864 to death; M.P. for North Warwickshire Dec. 1864 to death; assumed name of Bromley-Davenport in lieu of Davenport-Bromley 1868; aide-de-camp to the Queen 15 Aug. 1883 to death; author of many hunting songs and of an article entitled Fox hunting in The Nineteenth Century June 1883. d. Lichfield 15 June 1884. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii, 371–80 (1854); I.L.N. lxxxv, 629 (1884), portrait; Baily’s Mag. xlii, 385 (1884).

BRONTE, Charlotte Mary Hood, Duchess of (only dau. of Wm. Nelson, 1 Earl Nelson 1757–1835). b. 20 Sep. 1787; succeeded her father as Duchess of Bronte in Sicily 28 Feb. 1835. (m. 3 July 1810 Samuel Hood, 2 Baron Bridport 1788–1868). d. Cricket, St. Thomas 29 Jany. 1873. Earl Nelson v. Lord Bridport, 6 Beavan, Reports in Chancery 295–305 (1845); 7 Beavan 195–202 (1846); 8 Beavan 527–74 (1847).

BRONTE, Charlotte (3 child of the succeeding). b. Hartshead 21 April 1816; ed. at Cowan’s Bridge, Yorkshire 1824–5, and at Miss Wooler’s school Roehead, Yorkshire 1831–2 where she was teacher 29 July 1835 to Dec. 1837; learnt French in Brussels 1842–3. (m. 19 June 1854 Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls, C. of Haworth); author with her sisters Emily and Anne of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell 1846; Jane Eyre an autobiography edited by Currer Bell 3 vols. 1847; Shirley, a tale by Currer Bell 3 vols. 1849; Villette by Currer Bell 3 vols. 1853; The professor, a tale [edited by A. B. Nicholls] 2 vols. 1857. d. Haworth parsonage 31 March 1855. Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of C. Bronte 2 vols. 1857, portrait; C. Bronte, a monograph by T. W. Reid 1877; The Bronte family by F. A. Leyland 1886; G. B. Smith’s Poets and novelists (1875) 207–50; W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1883) 124–30, portrait; P. Bayne’s Two great Englishwomen (1881) 155–340; Illust. Review iv, 257–65, portrait.

BRONTE, Rev. Patrick (son of Hugh Prunty of Ahaderg, Downshire). b. Ahaderg 17 March 1777; opened a school at Drumgooland, Downshire 1793; changed his name to Bronte about 1801; entered St. John’s coll. Cam. Oct. 1802, B.A. 1806; ordained to a curacy in Essex; C. of Hartshead, Yorkshire 1811; P.C. of Thornton near Bradford 1814–20; Inc. of Haworth near Bradford 25 Feb. 1820 to death; author of Cottage poems 1811; The rural minstrel 1813 and of a tract called, The cottage in a wood, or the art of becoming rich and happy 1818 reprinted 1859, he is partly represented as Mr. Helstone in his daughter’s novel Shirley. d. Haworth parsonage 7 June 1861. Dict, of nat. biog. vi, 406–13 (1886).

BROOK, Charles (son of James Brook of Huddersfield, banker and cotton spinner at Meltham). b. Upperhead row, Huddersfield 18 Nov. 1814; partner with his father 1840; made many improvements in machinery; founded Convalescent Home at Huddersfield at cost of £40,000 where there is a portrait of him by Samuel Howell; purchased Enderby hall near Leicester 1865 at cost of £150,000; rebuilt Enderby church 1865. d. Enderby hall 10 July 1872.

BROOKE, Sir Arthur Brinsley, 2 Baronet. b. 1797; succeeded 24 March 1834; M.P. for co. Fermanagh 30 April 1840 to death. d. Colebrooke, co. Fermanagh 20 Nov. 1854.

BROOKE, Charles. b. in the Mint Exeter 8 Aug. 1777; ed. at English academy Liege; took part in emigration to Stonyhurst 1794; ordained at Maynooth 12 June 1802; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder Place near Stonyhurst 26 Sep. 1803; missioner at Clayton, Enfield Sep. 1817; provincial 1826–32; superior of Seminary adjacent to Stonyhurst college 30 July 1834; visitor of Ireland June 1842 to July 1843; rector of St. Aloysius’ college 1843–5; sent to Exeter 11 Sep. 1845 to gather materials for continuation of history of English province of Society of Jesus from 1635. d. in same room in which he had been born at Exeter 6 Oct. 1852.

BROOKE, Charles (son of Henry James Brooke 1771–1857). b. 30 June 1804; ed. at Chiswick, Rugby and St. John’s coll. Cam., 23 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, B.M. 1828, M.A. 1853; M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1844; pres. of Meteorological and Microscopical Societies; invented the bead suture, a great improvement in treatment of deep wounds; invented self recording meteorological instruments which register their variations by means of photography; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1844, councillor, librarian and vice. pres. successively; F.R.S. 4 March 1847; author of A synopsis of the principal formulæ and results of pure mathematics 1829; edited Golding Bird’s Elements of natural philosophy 4 ed. 1854, 5 ed. 1860, and 6 ed. 1867. d. Weymouth 17 May 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxx, 1–2 (1880).

BROOKE, Edward Basil. b. 1799; 2 lieut. R.A. 15 Dec. 1817; lieut. col. 67 Foot 9 Nov. 1846 to 31 Dec. 1858; inspecting field officer 31 Dec. 1858; M.G. 1 May 1861. d. London 1 Dec. 1868.

BROOKE, Edwin Harcourt, stage name of Edward James Macdonald Brook. b. Buckinghamshire 12 June 1843; ed. at City of London School; made his first appearance in London at Princess’s theatre 10 July 1862 as Lord Chamberlain in Henry the Eighth; acted at Sadlers Wells theatre, Prince’s theatre Manchester, Glasgow 2 seasons, Alexandra theatre Liverpool nearly 3 years; played Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice at Prince of Wales’s theatre London April 1875; played at Lyceum theatre 2 years where he acted Simon Renard in Tennyson’s Queen Mary April 1876; played title role in The Silver King in the provinces more than 400 times 1883–4; author of Gustave produced at Alexandra theatre Liverpool about 1876; of a comedietta called Bessie produced at Royalty theatre; and of an adaptation of David Copperfield. d. 1 Bullen road, Clapham Junction, London 30 Nov. 1884. Biograph vi, 582–4 (1881).

BROOKE, Francis Capper (only son of Rev. Charles Brooke of Ufford, Suffolk 1765–1836). b. 18 Sep. 1810; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1831; sheriff of Suffolk 1869; one of earliest contributors to Notes and Queries under initials F.C.B.: collected a fine library of 20,000 volumes at Ufford; author of Sepulchral memorials of the Cobham family 1874. d. Ufford 13 Jany. 1886.

BROOKE, Sir George. b. 1793; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 Sep. 1808, col. commandant 21 July 1851 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on retired list; general 24 May 1870; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Charles st. St. James’s London 31 Dec. 1882. I.L.N. lxxxii, 149 (1883), portrait.

BROOKE, George William. Secretary of London, Chatham and Dover railway company 1868 to death. d. West hill, Sydenham 21 Feb. 1876.

BROOKE, Gustavus Vaughan (son of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke of Dublin). b. Hardwick place, Dublin 25 April 1818; ed. at Edgeworthstown; first appeared on the stage, at T.R. Dublin 9 April 1833 as William Tell; played in Ireland and Scotland; first appeared in London, at Victoria theatre as Virginius 1837; acted in United States 1851–3; manager of Astor place opera house New York May 1852; played in Australia and New Zealand at large salary of £100 a night 1855–7; partner with George Coppin in T.R. Melbourne and Melbourne Cremorne in which he lost all his money, they dissolved partnership Feb. 1859; drowned in the London in Bay of Biscay on his way to Australia 10 Jany. 1866. Longman’s Mag. March 1885, 490–501; Theatrical times iii, 18, 49 (1848), portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 41–2, 2 portraits; Tallis’s Illust. Life in London (1864) 120, 126, 2 portraits; I.L.N. xii, 12, 91 (1848), 2 portraits.

BROOKE, Henry Francis (eld. son of George Brooke of Ashbrooke, co. Fermanagh). b. 3 Aug. 1836; ensign 48 Foot 6 June 1854; served in Crimea and China; adjutant general Bombay army 23 Nov. 1877 to 28 March 1880; brigadier general in command of second infantry brigade in Kandahar 28 March 1880 to death; killed at Maiwand in a sortie from Kandahar 16 Aug. 1880, bur. in family vault at Colebrooke 14 Dec. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 24–6, portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii, 289 (1880), portrait.

BROOKE, Henry James (son of Mr. Brooke of Exeter, broadcloth manufacturer). b. Exeter 25 May 1771; a trader in Spanish wool in London 1802; established companies to work mines of South America; actuary and sec. to London Life association to 1843; F.G.S. 1815; F.L.S. 1818; F.R.S. 22 April 1819, member of council 1842–44; his unrivalled collection of minerals was presented to Univ. of Cam.; discovered 13 new mineral species; author of A familiar introduction to Crystallography 1823; edited with extensive alterations and additions An elementary introduction to Mineralogy by W. Phillips 1852. d. Clapham Rise, Surrey 26 June 1857. Proc. of Royal Soc. ix, 41–4 (1857); Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xiv, 44–45 (1858).

BROOKE, Henry Vaughan. b. 11 Nov. 1808; ensign 32 Foot 12 July 1827, lieut. col. 13 Sep. 1848 to 24 July 1857; C.B. 9 June 1849; aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 June 1854 to death. d. Holyhead 15 Sep. 1858.

BROOKE, Sir James (2 son of Thomas Brooke of Widcombe crescent, Bath who d. 1835). b. Secrole now called Secrore the European suburb of Benares 29 April 1803; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; in the Bengal army 1819–30; sailed for Borneo in a schooner of his own 16 Dec. 1838; subdued insurrection in Borneo 1840–1; created Rajah of Sarawak 24 Sep. 1841, formerly installed at Kuching 18 Aug. 1842; suppressed piracy in Malayan Archipelago 1843–9; founded settlement of Labuan in Borneo 2 Dec. 1846; comr. and consul general in Borneo 23 July 1847 to 9 Aug. 1855; admitted to freedom of City of London 29 Oct. 1847; governor of Labuan 27 Nov. 1847 to Feb. 1856; D.C.L. Ox. 25 Nov. 1847; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; left Sarawak April 1863. d. Burrator, close to Sheepstor, Dartmoor, Devon 11 June 1868 an estate which was purchased for him by public subscription 1859. The private letters of Sir J. Brooke edited by J. C. Templer 3 vols. 1853; The life of Sir J. Brooke by S. St. John 1879, portrait; G. L. Jacob’s Rajah of Sarawak 2 vols. 1876, portrait; Illust. news of the world ii, 380 (1858), portrait; I.L.N. xi, 233 (1847), portrait.

BROOKE, James Croft. Ensign 31 Foot 31 Oct. 1831; major 8 Foot 2 Oct. 1849 to 15 Oct. 1861 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Hastings terrace, Jersey 27 April 1875.

BROOKE, John. Called to Irish bar 1819; Q.C. 1 July 1837; bencher of King’s Inns 1859. d. 1877.

BROOKE, John Brooke Johnson (eld. son of Rev. Francis Charles Johnson, V. of White Lackington, Somerset who d. 22 Dec. 1874 aged 78). Ensign 88 Foot 11 Oct. 1839, captain 18 Jany. 1848 to Jany. 1853 when he retired; joined his uncle Sir James Brooke in Sarawak 1848; took his uncle’s name of Brooke 1848; member of council of state Sarawak 1855–63; carried on government of Sarawak as Rajah Muda during his uncle’s illness 1858; distinguished for energy with which he suppressed piracy on coast of Borneo. d. Hounslow 1 Dec. 1868 aged 45. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 128 (1869).

BROOKE, Richard (son of Richard Brooke of Liverpool who d. 15 June 1852 aged 91). b. Liverpool 1791; solicitor and notary at Liverpool 1814; member of Liverpool Literary and Philosophical society 12 Nov. 1855, member of council 1860 to death; F.S.A.; author of Observations illustrative of the accounts given by the ancient historical writers of the battle of Stoke Field 1825; A treatise on the office and practice of a Notary of England 1839, 4 ed. 1876; Liverpool as it was during the last quarter of the eighteenth century 1853; Visits to fields of battle in England of the fifteenth century 1857. d. Liverpool 14 June 1861.

BROOKE, Sir Richard, 6 Baronet. b. Norton Priory, Cheshire 18 Aug. 1785; succeeded 6 March 1795; sheriff of Cheshire 1817. d. Norton Priory 11 Nov. 1865.

BROOKE, Rev. Richard Sinclair. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1858, B.D. and D.D. 1860; minister of Mariners’ church Kingstown, Dublin 1835–62; R. of Wyton, Hunts. 1862–77; author of The sheaf of corn, or mornings with a scripture class 1850; Poems illustrative of Grace-Creation-Suffering 1852; Recollections of the Irish church 1877. d. 11 Herbert st. Dublin 6 Aug. 1882 aged 80.

BROOKE, Thomas (2 son of Sir Richard Brooke, 6 Baronet 1785–1865). b. Norton Priory 2 April 1816; ensign 12 Foot 31 Oct. 1834, lieut. col. 19 May 1854 to 22 Feb. 1861 when placed on h.p.; col. 28 Foot 30 Sep. 1878 to death; general 27 April 1879. d. 13 Manson place, Queen’s gate, London 4 Nov. 1880.

BROOKE, William. b. Burnham Market, Norfolk 1 Aug. 1795; kept a school at Norwich 1820–65; supplied records of his meteorological observations to local papers and scientific journals 1829 to death; F.R.A.S. 1849. d. Upper Surrey st. Norwich 1 Aug. 1867. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxviii, 77 (1868).

BROOKE, William (eld. son of Wm. Brooke, M.D. of Dublin). b. Dublin 22 July 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1812, B.A. 1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1835; bencher of King’s Inns 1846; a master in court of chancery 1846–74; a comr. of the Great Seal Feb. 1874; P.C. June 1874. d. Taney hill house, Dundrum, co. Dublin 19 Aug. 1881.

BROOKE, William Henry. b. 1781; clerk in bank of John Trotter in London who established first bazaar in this country namely in Soho sq. 1816; pupil of Samuel Drummond, A.R.A. who in his etching from his own painting of “The death of Nelson” has introduced a portrait of Brooke as one of the sailors; exhibited 9 pictures at the R.A., 6 at the B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1808–33; portrait painter in London 1798; contributed drawings to the Satirist 1812 to Sep. 1813; illustrated Moore’s Irish Melodies 1822; Keightley’s Greek and Roman Mythology 1831 and many other popular books; many of his drawings on wood were engraved by Thomson, Branston and other eminent xylographers. d. Chichester 12 Jany. 1860. C. R. Smith’s Collectanea Antiqua v, 273–6 (1861); C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 281–5 (1883).