Richard Brooke (priest)

The Ven. Richard Brooke, J.P. (1840 - 1926)^[1] was Archdeacon of The Cape^[2] from 1905 to 1926.^[3]

Brooke was educated at the University of the Cape and ordained Deacon in 1864 and Priest in 1865. He was a Tutor at the Diocesan College until 1866 when he became Rector of Philippolis. After further incumbencies at Clanwilliam and Claremont he became Principal of the Diocesan College. In 1901 he became Rector of Kalk Bay.^[4]

He died on 4 April 1926 at Rondebosch. His son was Dean of Cape Town from 1932 to 1947.^[5]

Notes

1. Deaths. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Apr 07, 1926; pg. 1; Issue 44239
2. "I’ve remembered Captain Cyril thomthwaite Brooke". Every Man Remembered. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
3. ‘BROOKE, Ven. Richard’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 28 Oct 2015
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p619: London, Horace Cox, 1908
5. Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1947-48 p157 Oxford, OUP,1947