• Robert Brooke was one of two Members of the Parliament of England for the constituency of York between 1584 and 1586 and also between 1586 and 1588. Robert...
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  • Robert Brooke Robert Brooke (MP for Dunwich) (1572–1646), English politician Robert Brooke (16th century MP) (1531–1599), MP for City of York Robert Brooke...
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  • Dyneley. He married Isabel Gale, son of Alderman George Gale, who was also an MP for the city of York. He was made a freeman of the city in 1532 and became...
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    Kildare, by whom he had no issue. Sir William Brooke (11 December 1565 – 1597) MP. Killed in duel. Sir George Brooke (17 April 1568 – 5 December 1603), who married...
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    Sir Robert Brooke (c. 1572 – 10 July 1646) was an English landowner, magistrate, commissioner, administrator and MP who sat in the House of Commons between...
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    surname is also rendered Brooke, and occasionally Brook, which are, for modern readers, better indicators of pronunciation. Robert Broke was born by 1515:...
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  • childless elder brothers, Brudenell's son, Robert became the 6th Earl of Cardigan. Lewis Namier & John Brooke, The History of Parliament: The House of Commons...
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  • acquired a large amount of land around the Beverley area. He was chosen to be MP for the city of York in 1586. He died in 1608 and was buried at St Michael...
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    Speakers' Meeting. Robert Charnock (d. 1616); Richard Charnock MP (d.1648–1653), 1616-48/53; Margaret Charnock, wife of Richard Brooke (1640–1715), 1648/53-1715;...
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  • surveyor Ron Loveday (1900–1987), Australian politician Thomas Loveday, 16th-century MP for Gloucester Thomas Loveday (university administrator), British professor...
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    dating from the 16th century. Cockfield Hall takes its name from the Cokefeud Family, established there at the beginning of the 14th century.[citation needed]...
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    1515–1572), MP, of Otterton, Devon, by whom he had issue: Duke Brooke; Peter Brooke; Thomas Brooke (1533 – 1578), alias "Thomas Cobham", MP, married and...
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    Horton Court (section Brooke)
    Horton Court is a stone-built 16th century manor house in Horton, near Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, England. It is a grade I listed building...
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  • April 1686: in 1693, as coheir of his uncle Robert Brooke the younger, he succeeded his aunt Mary Brooke in the estate at Yoxford, and thereafter made...
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  • Anne Elizabeth Egerton, married 1841 Charles Robert Cotton, grandson of Sir Lynch Cotton, 4th Baronet, MP; Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton (13 Nov 1805...
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    long gallery above, said by Pevsner to be the best example from the 16th century in Devon. On its plaster ceiling survive the initials of the builder...
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    elsewhere. Her son Richard Cheddar, MP, signed over his large inheritance to his mother and stepfather Sir Thomas II Brooke for their lives, due to the latter...
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    William Cromer (died 1598) (category 16th-century English MPs)
    sheriff for a second time in 1585. He served as MP for Hythe in 1571, being appointed by William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports...
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    Baron Brooke. The male line was interrupted in 1853 when Robert John Barnard (1809–1862), nephew of the 16th baron, inherited the title. Robert took the...
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    which dates from the 16th century. Old Cottage dates from the 17th century, although it is nowadays dominated by a 20th-century wing. To the east of Bank...
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    late 16th century, but its gatehouse is late 15th century. Both were built on the site of an older manor house, dating back to the 13th century or before...
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    Place, that migrated to Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the 14th or 16th century, and then to Gloucestershire, and, for a generation, North Yorkshire...
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    migration into the territory of modern-day Sarawak from the middle of the 16th century. Their migration was influenced by factors such as tribal conflict, territorial...
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    varying size and importance, heavily dependent on agriculture. From the 16th century it was increasingly dominated by a single landed gentry family, the Littletons...
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  • in The Second Part of the Commentaries or Reports of Edmund Plowden (S. Brooke, London 1816), pp. 452-59. Will of Sir Thomas Wroth of Enfield (P.C.C. 1575)...
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    In England he served as MP for Ashburton in 1767 and between 1774 and 1787 and for Wareham, between 1768 and 1774. Robert Palk was born in December...
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    became known for printing and publishing at the start of the 16th century and by the 20th century, most British national newspapers operated here. Much of...
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  • David Broke (redirect from Sir David Brooke)
    David Brook (c. 1498–1560) (also Brooke or Broke) was an English judge and Member of Parliament. He was of a West country family living at Glastonbury...
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  • Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes MP (1901–1974), Governor-General of the West Indies Federation (1958–1962) Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton...
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  • of Tudor Women: Brooke-Bu, compiled by Kathy Lynn Emerson to update and correct Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England (1984) Archived...
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