Basil Brooke

Basil Brooke may refer to:

  • Basil Brooke (metallurgist) (1576–1646), English ironmaster and metallurgist
  • Basil Brooke (Royal Navy captain) (1882–1929), Royal Navy officer
  • Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough (1888–1973), former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
  • Basil Brooke (Royal Navy admiral) (1895–1983), Royal Navy admiral and English cricketer

Famous quotes containing the word brooke:

    But the best I’ve known
    Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown
    About the winds of the world, and fades from brains
    Of living men, and dies.
    —Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)