Brooke, Stopford Augustus (1832–1916)

English cleric and scholar. He became chaplain-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1875, but left the Church of England in 1880 and until 1895 was Unitarian minister at Bedford Chapel. He published, among other works, Freedom in the Church of England (1871), Theology in the English Poets (1874), and History of Early English Literature (1892).

Brooke was born near Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland; educated at Trinity College, Dublin; and ordained in 1857. After working as a curate in London, in 1836 he was appointed chaplain to the Princess Royal in Berlin.