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BROOKFIELD, Charles Hallam Elton was born in 1857. 2nd son of Reverend Canon W. H. Brookfield and Jane Octavia, daughter of Sir Charles Elton, 6th Baronet, and niece of Henry Hallam.
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BROOKFIELD, Charles Hallam Elton was born in 1857. 2nd son of Reverend Canon W. H. Brookfield and Jane Octavia, daughter of Sir Charles Elton, 6th Baronet, and niece of Henry Hallam.
Westminster; Trinity College, Cambridge. Winchester Reading Prize, ISIS-. For many years on the staff of the Saturday Review.
Entered Inner Temple but was never called. Went on stage, 1879, with the Haymarket Company under the Bancrofts, 1879-1885.
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