Peter Brooke (17th-century MP)

"Sir Peter Brooke" redirects here. Not to be confused with Peter Brook.

Sir Peter Brooke (c. 1602 – 1685) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1656.

Brooke was the younger son of Thomas Brooke of Norton by Eleanor Gerard, his third wife.[1]

In 1646, he was elected Member of Parliament for Newton in the Long Parliament. In 1656 he was elected MP for Cheshire in the Second Protectorate Parliament.[2]

Brooke, then of Mere Hall, Cheshire which he bought in 1652, was knighted on 24 July 1660.[3] He was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1669.[1]

He married three times:firstly, Alice, the daughter and heiress of Richard Hulse of Kenilworth, Warwickshire with whom he had two sons; secondly Frances, the daughter of Nicholas Trot of Quickshot, Hertfordshire and the widow of William Merbury of Merbury; and thirdly Mabell, the daughter of William Farrington of Werden and the widow of Richard Clayton of Crooke. He was succeeded by his elder son, Thomas. His younger son Richard married Margaret Charnock, heiress of Astley Hall, Chorley.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b William Duncombe Pink, Alfred B. Beaven The parliamentary representation of Lancashire, (county and borough), 1258-1885, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, &c. (1889)
  2. ^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
  3. ^ Knights of England
  4. ^ "The family of Langford Brookes of Mere". Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  5. ^ brooke and Elizabeth Merbury&f=false