suc. bro. 24 Feb. 1711 (a minor) as 7th Bar. BROOKE.
First sat 10 Jan. 1716; last sat 27 Apr. 1727
b. c.1694 2nd s. of Francis Greville‡ and Anne, wid. of Henry Baynton of Spy Park, Wilts., da. of John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester; bro. of Fulke Greville, 6th Bar. Brooke. educ. Wadham, Oxf. matric. 5 Jan. 1711, MA 1712. m. Mary (d.1720), 2nd da. of Henry Thynne‡ and Grace, da. of Sir George Strode of Leweston, Dorset, 3s. (2 d.v.p.). d. 28 July 1727; will 1 Feb. 1726, pr. 8 July 1728.1
Recorder, Warwick 1719-d.
Associated with: Beauchamps Court, Warws.; Warwick Castle and Poland Street, Westminster.
Like his brother, Brooke succeeded to the peerage while still underage, and while a student at Oxford. Control of the family estates and any concomitant electoral interest was probably left in the hands of trustees until he reached his majority. In 1713 it was reported that he required the permission of an uncle (probably Dodington Greville‡) before he was able to take up residence at Warwick Castle.2 Brooke died in his early thirties and also left a minor to succeed him. Full details of his career following the Hanoverian succession will be considered in the next part of this work.
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