Background
Brerewood was the son of John Brerewood who had been Sheriff of Chester.
Brerewood was the son of John Brerewood who had been Sheriff of Chester.
Brasenose College.
The Brerewood family over several generations filled many public offices in Chester. In 1605 Brerewood was sent to Brasenose College, Oxford and was later admitted to Middle Temple. He was called to the bar on 13 November 1615, and practised for twenty-two years.
In 1637 he was appointed a judge of North Wales and was appointed reader at the Middle Temple in Lent term in 1638.
He was chosen Recorder of Chester in 1639. Also in 1640 Brerewood became serjeant-at-law and in 1641 he was appointed king"s serjeant.
He was knighted in 1643, and raised to the bench as one of the Judges of the Common Pleas. He was sworn in at Oxford where King Charles I then was, and continued to sit until the end of the Civil War but never in Westminster Hall.
After the execution of Charles I he retired into private life.
Brerewood died at the age of 66 and was buried in Street Mary"s Church, Chester.
Short Parliament]
In April 1640, Brerewood was returned as Member of Parliament for Chester for the Short Parliament.