Brooke
Brooke names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Brooke RUPERT, an English poet and writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RUPERT, an English poet and writer. He was born in Rugby in 1877, and was educated at Rugby School and at King's College, Cambridge. For several years he lived in Cambridge and devoted himself chiefly to the writing of poetry. His first volume was published in 1911 and was well received. He showed evidence of unusual talent and was considered one of the leaders of the new school of poetry. At the outbreak of the World War he enlisted, and while engaged in service was taken ill with blood poisoning. He died on April 23, 1915, on board a French hospital ship. A number of poems inspired by the war exhibit remarkable dramatic powers. His collected poems were published in 1915. Other works are "John Webster and Elizabethan Drama" (1916); "Letters from America" (1916); "Lithuania," a drama in one act (1916).
Brooke SIR JAMES, Rajah of Sarawak
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR JAMES, Rajah of Sarawak, was born in Benares, India, April 29, 1803. In 1838, having gone to Borneo, he assisted the Sultan of Brunei (the nominal ruler of the island) in suppressing a revolt. For his services he was made Rajah and Governor of Sarawak, a district on the N. W. coast of the island, and, being established in the Government, he endeavored to induce the Dyak natives to abandon their irregular and piratical mode of life and to turn themselves to agriculture and commerce; and his efforts to introduce civilization were crowned with wonderful success. He was made a K. C. Bein 1847, and was appointed Governor of Labuan. He died in Devonshire, England, June 11, 1868.
Brooke STOPFORD AUGUSTUS, an English Unitarian preacher
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
STOPFORD AUGUSTUS, an English Unitarian preacher, born in Donegal in 1832. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He has held important curacies in London, and in 1872 was appointed Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. He subsequently became a Unitarian. He has p published "Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson," "Theology in the English Poets," ," "Primer of English, Literature," and "The Early Life of Jesus." "Treasury of Irish Poetry" (1901); "On ten Plays of Shakespeare" (1905); "Onward Cry" (1911); "Ten More Plays of Shakespeare" (1913). He died in 1916.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's gives Rupert Brooke's birth year as 1877; he was in fact born in 1887, and the fatal "blood poisoning" is now generally traced to an infected insect bite, with his grave on the Greek island of Skyros a minor place of pilgrimage. Where the 1921 account calls him a leader of the new poetry, later criticism set his idealism ("The Soldier") beneath the harsher war verse of Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg, though the poems have never left print. The dynasty founded by Sir James Brooke lasted three generations: his great-nephew Charles Vyner Brooke ceded Sarawak to Britain in 1946, and since 1963 it has been a state of Malaysia — and the confident line about "efforts to introduce civilization" now reads as a specimen of Victorian imperial self-description rather than a plain fact. Stopford Brooke, described in the present tense in places despite the noted death in 1916, is now read chiefly by students of Victorian religious doubt.
Written for this edition, 2026.