John Brooke, 1st Baron Cobham (15 August 1575 - 1660) was an English politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1614 and 1643. He supported the

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cause in the

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. Brooke was the son of Hon. Henry Brooke and his wife Anne Sutton, daughter of Sir Henry Sutton of

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; his father was the fifth son of

George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham (29 September 1558) lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent and of Cooling Castle, Kent, was an English peer, soldier and magnate, who participated in the political turmoil following the death of King Henry VIII. ...

. In 1601 Brooke was in Paris learning French and in 1610 was journeying by sea and put into a port in Portugal. He was knighted in January 1612.W R Williams ''The Parliamentary History of the County of Oxford''
/ref> In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Gatton. He was elected MP for

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in 1621 and MP for

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in 1625. In May 1626 he was made senior

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. He lived at

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, Lincolnshire. In November 1640 Brooke was elected MP for Appleby for the

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. In the civil war he granted a warrant for raising money for the King's service in Lincolnshire, and was disabled from sitting in parliament on 15 March 1643.The parliamentary or constitutional history of England;: being a faithful account of all the most remarkable transactions in Parliament, from the earliest times. Collected from the journals of both Houses, the records, ..., Volume 9
/ref> He was created

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on 3 January 1645. Brooke died in 1660 and was buried at

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, Northamptonshire on 20 May 1660. Brooke married firstly Anne, who died in February 1625, and secondly Francis Bampfield, daughter of Sir William Bampfield.

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