Family and Education
b. c. 1561, 1st s. of Richard Brooke of Whitchurch and Elizabeth, sis. and h. of John Twyne.Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 214-5. educ. Winchester 1573; New Coll. Oxf. 1581, aged 20, BA 1584; Clement’s Inn; I. Temple 1585, called 1595. Winchester Scholars ed. Kirby, 145; Al. Ox.; I. Temple database of admiss. m. c.1598, Susan, da. of Sir Thomas Forster of Hunsdon, Herts., j.c.p. 1607-12, 8s. 3da. Vis. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), 143; T.V. Balch, Brooke Fams. of Whitchurch, 3-10. suc. fa. 1594. PROB 11/83, f. 331v. d. 13 Sept. 1612. C142/338/52.
Offices Held

Escheator, Hants and Wilts. 1586 – 87, 1591–2, List of Escheators comp. A.C. Wood (L. and I. Soc. lxxii), 150; CSP Dom. 1591–4, p. 143. Hants 1594; C142/233/110. bencher, I. Temple 1607, reader 1611; CITR, ii. 30, 50, 56. alderman, Whitchurch by 1608; C66/1778/1. j.p. Hants by 1608–d., SP14/33, f. 56. commr. subsidy 1608, SP14/31/1. aid 1612. Harl. 354, f. 68.

Main residence: Whitchurch, Hants.
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Commons 1604-1629
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BROOKE, Thomas (c.1561-1612)

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