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Robert Brooke (MP for Dunwich)

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Sir Robert Brooke (c. 1572 – 10 July 1646) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1629.

Brooke was probably the son of Robert Brooke, alderman of London. He was admitted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge on 13 March 1588. He was admitted at Gray's Inn on 9 February 1593. In 1614 he was Sheriff of Suffolk.[1] He was knighted in 1615 as of Blythburgh, Suffolk. In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for Dunwich in the Happy Parliament and was re-elected in 1625 for the Useless Parliament. He was elected MP for Dunwich again in 1628 and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.[2]

Brooke died at the age of 74 and was buried at Yoxford.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Brooke, Robert (BRK587R2)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Browne Willis Notitia parliamentaria, or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: ... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences 1750 pp186-239
Parliament of England
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Dunwich
1624–1626
With: Sir John Rous 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Dunwich
1628–1629
With: Francis Winterton 		Succeeded by
Parliament suspended until 1640
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