William Brooke (MP, died 1643)
Sir William Brooke Member of Parliament for Rochester, Kent.
Biography
He was the only son of
James I of England.[2]
On 1 February 1626, he was invested as a
Knight of the Bath. He served as the Member of Parliament for Rochester, Kent from 1628 to 1629.[2]
Brooke married twice; his first wife was Pembroke Lennard (daughter of
Hon. Frances Brooke
, who married Sir Thomas Whitmore, was another noted beauty.
His two principal residences were Cooling in
Sutton-at-Hone Lathe Volunteers of the Kent Trained Bands, and died from wounds received at the First Battle of Newbury.[5] As he had no sons, the barony (subject to attainder) fell into abeyance between his four daughters and co-heirs.[2]
His widow remarried Hon. Edward Russell, younger son of
Whig statesman Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford
. She died in 1694.
References
- ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant and in Abeyance. E. Ed. Henry Colburh. 1846. p. 82.
- ^ a b c d "BROOKE, Sir William (by 1602-1643), of Cooling Park, Kent". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
- ^ "Parishes: Cowling | British History Online". British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
- ^ Diary of Samuel Pepys 7 January 1667
- ^ Sutton-at-Hone Lathe Volunteers at British Civil War Project.
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