Career
Born in 1939 in London, Brabook was a lawyer by training and became the senior registrar of friendly societies. He wrote extensively on the law relating to working-class self-help institutions, promoting legal guides for industrial and provident (co-operative) societies, trade unions, and savings banks. He was president of the Anthropological Institute in 1895–1897.
He died in 1930 in Wallington, Surrey and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.