Charles Brooke (other)
Charles Brooke may refer to: * Charles Brooke (surgeon) (1804–1879), English surgeon and inventor * Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (1829–1917), head of state of Sarawak, Borneo * Charles Brooke (Jesuit) (1777–1852), English Jesuit * Charles Vyner Brooke (1874–1963), third and last White Rajah of Sarawak See also * Charles Brook (other) * Charles Brooks (other) Charles Brooks may refer to: * Charles Brooks (cartoonist) (1920–2011), American editorial cartoonist * Charles Brooks (cricketer) (1927–2002), English cricketer * Charles Brooks (trade unionist) (1915–1977), Canadian labour union activist * ...

Charles Brooke (surgeon)
Charles Brooke Royal Microscopical Society, FRMS Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (30 June 1804 – 17 May 1879) was an English surgeon and inventor. Surgical career Brooke, son of the well-known mineralogist, Henry James Brooke, was born 30 June 1804. His early education was carried on at Chiswick, under Dr. Turner. After this he was entered at Rugby School in 1819 and St John's College, Cambridge, where he remained five years. He was twenty-third wrangler and B.A. 1827, B.M. 1828, and M.A. in 1853. During a part of this period he studied medicine, and his professional education was completed at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He passed the Royal College of Surgeons examination on 3 September 1834, and became a fellow of that institution 26 August 1844. He lectured for one or two sessions on surgery at Dermott's School, and afterwards held positions on the surgical staff of the Metropolitan Free Hospital and the Westminster Hospital, which latter appointment he resigned in 1869. He ...
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Charles Brooke, Rajah Of Sarawak
Sir Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, GCMG (''Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke''; 3 June 1829 – 17 May 1917), born ''Charles Anthoni Johnson'', ruled as the head of state of Raj of Sarawak from 3 August 1868 until his death. He succeeded his uncle, James Brooke, as the second White Rajah of this small country on the coast of Borneo. Biography Charles Anthoni Johnson, was born in Berrow Vicarage, Burnham, Somerset, in England, to the Rev. Francis Charles and Emma Frances Johnson, née Brooke. Emma was the younger sister of James Brooke, the first Rajah of Sarawak. In addition to Charles, Francis and Emma had other children: Captain John Brooke Johnson (1823–1868) (later Brooke Brooke), Mary Anna Johnson (b. 1824), Harriet Helena Johnson (b. 1826), Charlotte Frances Johnson (b. 1828), Captain (William) Frederic Johnson (b. 1830), Emma Lucy Johnson (b. 1832), Margaret Henrietta Johnson (1834–1845), Georgianna Brooke Johnson (1836–1854), James Stuart Johnson (1839–1840) ...
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Charles Brooke (Jesuit)
Charles Brooke (1777–1852), was an English Jesuit. Brooke was born at Exeter, 8 August 1777, and received his education at the English academy at Liège and at Stonyhurst, where he entered the Society of Jesus, of which he became a professed father (1818). He was provincial of his order from 1826 to 1832, and subsequently made the superior of the seminary at Stonyhurst College. After filling the office of rector of the Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ... district, he was sent with ill health to Exeter, in 1845, to gather materials for a continuation of the history of the English province from the year 1635, to which period Father Henry More's 'Historia Missionis Anglicanæ Societatis Jesu' extends. The documents and information he collected were afte ...
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Charles Vyner Brooke
Vyner, Rajah of Sarawak, GCMG, full name Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke (26 September 1874 – 9 May 1963) was the third and last White Rajah of the Raj of Sarawak. Early life The son of Charles Brooke and his wife Margaret de Windt ( Ranee Margaret of Sarawak), Vyner was born in London and spent his youth there, being educated at Clevedon, Winchester College, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He then entered the Sarawak public service. Vyner served as '' aide-de-camp'' to his father 1897–1898, district officer of Simanggang 1898–1901, Resident of Mukah and Oya, 1902–1903, Resident of the Third Division 1903–1904, President of the Law Courts 1904–1911, vice-president of the Supreme and General Councils 1904–1911. In his military career, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) on 12 May 1911, but resigned from the (County of London) Battalion (Artist's Rifles) on 21 May 1913. During the First World War ...
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Charles Brook (other)
Charles Brook may refer to: *Charles Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador Charles Brook is a settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada, in the coun ... * Charles Brook (philanthropist) (1814–1872), English businessman and philanthropist * Charles Wortham Brook (1901–1983), London GP and member of the London County Council See also * Charles Brooke (other) * Charles Brooks (other) {{disambiguation BrookCharles, ...
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