Family and Education
b. by 1602, Age calculated from date of admiss. to univ. o.s. of George Brooke of Cobham, Kent, and Elizabeth, da. of Thomas, 5th Lord Burgh. educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1616. m. (1) 17 Sept. 1623, Pembroke, da. of Henry Lennard, 12th Lord Dacre, of Hurstmonceaux, Suss. 2da.; (2) aft. Mar. 1627, Penelope (bur. 12 July 1694), da. of Sir Moyses Hill of Hillsborough Castle, co. Down, provost marshal of Ulster, 3da. Arch. Cant. xi. 208; Al. Cant.; CP sub Cobham; J. Cave-Browne, Story of Hollingborne, 81; J.P. Malcolm, Londinium Redivum, ii. 205. suc. fa. 1603; cr. KB 1 Feb. 1626. Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 162. d. by 28 Sept. 1643.
Offices Held

Asst. bridge warden, Rochester 1625 – d., snr. warden 1626, 1633, 1640; Traffic and Pols. ed. N. Yates and J.M. Gibson, 294. commr. sewers, Rainham bridge to Mucking mill, Essex 1627, Kent and Suss. 1629; C181/3, f. 233; 181/4, f. 32. freeman, Rochester 1628; Medway Archives, customal, new f. 48. j.p. Kent 1629–d.; C231/4, f. 263; PRO 30/26/104, f. 23. commr. charitable uses, Kent 1632 – at least33, 1637, C93/14/17; 192/1, unfol. assessment, 1641, Poll Tax 1642, SR, v. 85, 107, 152; A. and O. i. 92. array, 1642; Northants. RO, FH133. dep. lt. Kent 1642; CJ, ii. 724a. commr. sequestration of delinquents, 1643, levying money, 1643. A. and O. i. 113, 149, 231.

Col. of ft. (parl.) 1643–d. A. Everitt, ‘Acct. bk. of cttee. of Kent’, Seventeenth-Cent. Misc. (Kent Recs. xvii), 144.

Main residence: Cooling Park, Kent.
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Commons 1604-1629
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BROOKE, Sir William (by 1602-1643)

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