Stopford Brooke

BROOKE, Stopford Augustus. b. Glendoen, near Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland, 14 November 1832; d. Cranleigh, Surrey, 18 March 1916. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA 1856, MA 1858). He took Holy Orders (deacon 1857, priest 1858), and became curate of St Matthew’s, Marylebone, London (1857-59), St Mary Abbot’s, Kensington (1859-63), and then chaplain to the British Embassy in Berlin (1863-65). Brooke was an independent and controversial thinker: his Life and Letters of F.W. Robertson (1865) gave offence to the evangelical wing of the Church of England. He became minister of the proprietary chapel of St James, York Street, London, in 1866, where he became renowned as a preacher...