Henry Brooke
b. c. 1703 d. 1783
Irish writer and playwright. Achieved initial fame with the poem ‘Universal beauty’ in 1735; later best-known for his novel, The fool of quality (1766–70). A strong advocate of Whig politics and Protestant religion.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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