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:

    “A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,
    And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,
    With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,
    To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.”
    —Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)