Brooke, Henry, Irish dramatist and novelist, born in co. Cavan; author of the “Fool of Quality,” a book commended by John Wesley and much lauded by Charles Kingsley, and the only one of his works that survives; wrote, among other things, a poem called “Universal Beauty,” and a play called “Gustavus Vasa” (1703‒1783).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brook Farm * Brooke, Sir James