Background
Brooke was born in Kensington, London, the son of Stopford Brooke, an Irish clergymen, chaplain to Queen Victoria and writer, and his wife Emma (née Wentworth-Beaumont).
Brooke was born in Kensington, London, the son of Stopford Brooke, an Irish clergymen, chaplain to Queen Victoria and writer, and his wife Emma (née Wentworth-Beaumont).
He was educated at Winchester College and University College, Oxford graduating in 1881.
He was a Unitarian minister in England between 1883 and 1886 and then went to America where he was minister at the First Church (Unitarian) in Boston, Massachusetts. He was elected to the Commons in the 1906 general election, succeeding the Conservative Member of Parliament Walter Guthrie in the Bow and Bromley constituency. He left Parliament in the January 1910 general election and was succeeded by the Conservative Alfred du Cros.
He tried to re-enter Parliament at the December 1910 general election as a Liberal candidate at Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire and was defeated by the sitting Unionist Member of Parliament William Ellis Hume-Williams by a narrow 215 vote margin.
He was Liberal candidate in Guildford in Surrey at the 1929 general election. He came second to the sitting Conservative Henry Cecil Buckingham, trailing by 4,566 votes.
Somerset Stopford Brooke made a second attempt to get into the House of Commons in 1935 when he stood as a Liberal National in Shoreditch.
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He was a Liberal Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) from 1906 to 1910. At the time of this election Brooke was described as a member of the stock-exchange.