Background
The son of Zachary Brooke, a graduate of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Bachelor 1693-1694, and M A 1697), and at one time vicar of Hawkston-cum-Newton, near Cambridge, was born in 1716 at Hamerton, Huntingdonshire.
chaplain clergyman Professor of Divinity
The son of Zachary Brooke, a graduate of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Bachelor 1693-1694, and M A 1697), and at one time vicar of Hawkston-cum-Newton, near Cambridge, was born in 1716 at Hamerton, Huntingdonshire.
He was educated at Stamford school, and was admitted a sizar of Saint John"s College, Cambridge, 28 June 1734.
He was subsequently elected a fellow there, proceeded Bachelor of Arts in 1737, Master of Arts in 1741, Bachelor of Divinity in 1748, and Doctor of Divinity in 1753. He was elected to the Margaret professorship of divinity at Cambridge in 1765, and was at the same time a candidate for the mastership of Saint John"s College. He was chaplain to the king from 1758, and was vicar of Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, and rector of Forncett Saint Mary and Saint Peter, Suffolk.
He died at Forncett on 7 August 1788.
