Zachary Brooke | |
Birth Name: | Zachary Nugent Brooke |
Birth Date: | 1 December 1883 |
Death Place: | Cambridge, England |
Nationality: | British |
Spouse: | Rosa Brooke |
Children: | Christopher N. L. Brooke |
Alma Mater: | St John's College, Cambridge |
Discipline: | History |
Sub Discipline: | Medieval history |
Workplaces: | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
Zachary Nugent Brooke (1 December 1883 – 2 October 1946) was a British medieval historian.
Born on 1 December 1883, Brooke was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire and St John's College, Cambridge. In 1908, he was elected to a Drosier Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He was appointed as the second Professor of Medieval History at Cambridge in 1944. He was appointed as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1940.[1]
Brooke is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground, off Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, with his wife Rosa Grace Brooke (1888-1964).
He was the father of Christopher N. L. Brooke, who was also a medieval historian and fellow of Gonville and Caius College.
He died on 7 October 1946.
His published works include: