Henry Brooke

Henry Brooke is the name of:

  • Henry Cobham Brooke, MP for Kent (UK Parliament constituency)
  • Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham (1564–1618), English peer, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Lord Lieutenant of Kent, plotter against James I
  • Sir Henry Brooke, 1st Baronet (died 1664), English soldier and Cheshire
  • Henry Brooke (Irish politician) (1671–1761), Irish MP for Dundalk and Fermanagh
  • Henry Brooke (divine) (1694–1757), English schoolmaster and divine
  • Henry Brooke (writer) (1703–1783), Irish novelist and dramatist
  • Henry Brooke (artist) (1738–1806), Irish painter
  • Henry Vaughan Brooke (1743–1807), Irish MP for Donegal Borough and County, British MP for Donegal
  • Henry James Brooke (1771–1857), English crystallographer
  • William Henry Brooke (1772–1860), Irish painter and illustrator
  • Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor (1903–1984), British life peer and Conservative Party politician
  • Henry Brooke (judge) (born 1936), British former Lord Justice of Appeal

Famous quotes containing the words henry and/or brooke:

    “You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don’t have, at the back of your minds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “Just now the lilac is in bloom,
    All before my little room;”
    —Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)