John Charles Brooke
John Charles Brooke
Early life
Brooke was born at Fieldhead in the parish of Silkstone, Yorkshire in August 1748, the second son of Dr. William Brooke by his wife Alice Mawhood.[1] He was a descendant of the Rev. John Brooke, Rector of High Hoyland, who had himself โ in the previous century โ been an antiquarian interested in the history of Yorkshire.[2] John Charles Brooke eventually came into possession of some of the historical material collected by Rev. Brooke, and thus his "taste for historical and genealogical research" was "perhaps inherited."[1][2]
Brooke was sent by his parents to London to be apprenticed to James Kirkby, a chemist at
Career
He became Somerset Herald in 1777.
Death
On 3 February 1794 he attended the
References
- ^ a b c Nichols, John (1831). Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, Volume VI. Oxford University. p. 354.
- ^ a b c d Walker, John (1811). Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume IV. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. p. 398.
- ^ From: 'Heralds' College', Old and New London: Volume 1 (1878), pp. 294-304. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45044. Date accessed: 22 January 2008
- ^ "The Guild Church of St Benet, Paul's Wharf" (PDF). stbenetwelshchurch.org.uk. p. 2. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
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