BROOKE, Christopher (c.1570-1628), of York, Yorks. and Lincoln’s Inn, London; later of Drury Lane, Westminster

Family and Education

b. c.1570, 1st s. of Robert Brooke†, merchant and alderman of York, 1579-99, and Jane, da. of Christopher Maltby, draper of York.I. Walton, Life of Dr. Donne ed. H.K. Causton, 28-9. educ. ?Camb.; L. Inn 1587, called 1595. Procs. 1614 (Commons), 343; LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. ii. 35. m. 18 Dec. 1619, Mary (bur. 26 Nov. 1622), wid. of Sir Robert Jacob, solicitor gen. [I] 1606-18, of Southampton, Hants, 1s. St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Harl. Soc. Reg. lxvi), 131, 176. suc. fa. 1599. Borthwick, Reg. Test. 27, f. 596. bur. 7 Feb. 1628 7 Feb. 1628. GL, ms 6673/2. sig. Chr[istopher] Brooke.

Offices Held

Freeman, York 1603, dep. recorder 1608–16; Freemen of York ed. F. Collins (Surtees Soc. cii), 49; York City Archives, house bk. 33, f. 137; 34, f. 84. bencher, L. Inn 1610 – d., reader 1614, kpr. Black Bk. 1620 – 21, treas. 1623–4; LI Black Bks. ii. 135, 158, 218, 246. justice, Council in the North 1626–d.R. Reid, Council in the North, 498.

Cttee. Virg. Co. 1609–24. T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 254; Recs. Virg. Co. ed. S.M. Kingsbury, ii. 499.

Parlimentarian

BROOKE, Christopher (c.1570-1628), of York, Yorks. and Lincoln’s Inn, London; later of Drury Lane, Westminster

Main residences: York, Yorks.; Lincoln's Inn, London; Drury Lane, Westminster.

Author

J.P.F.

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

BROOKE, Christopher (c.1570-1628)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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