Sir Thomas Brooke, 1st Baronet, (31 May 1830 in

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– 16 July 1908 in

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) was a British baronet. Son of Thomas Brooke, of Northgate House,

, Yorkshire, and his wife Ann, daughter of Joseph Ingham, Brooke was a woollen merchant. He married firstly, in 1854, Eliza (d. 1855), daughter of Enoch Vickerman; their son, Francis Thomas, was born in 1855 and predeceased his father in 1872. He married secondly, in 1860, Amelia (d. 1901), daughter of David Dewar, of Dunfermline, Fife; his third wife was Mary (d. 1938), daughter of James Priestley, J.P., of Bankfield, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and widow of Rev. Charles Farrar Forster. Brooke was also a Chairman of Quarter Sessions for the West Riding of Yorkshire and

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of the 5th Administrative Battalion, Yorkshire West Riding Rifle Volunteer Corps.‘BROOKE, Sir Thomas’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201
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People educated at Cheltenham College British textile industry businesspeople People from Honley English justices of the peace Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 1830 births 1908 deaths Wool trade Deputy lieutenants of the West Riding of Yorkshire Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts {{UK-baronet-stub