Brooke baronets of Norton Priory (1662)

The Brooke baronetcy, of Norton Priory in the County of Chester, was created in the Baronetage of England on 12 December 1662 for Henry Brooke, a Colonel in the Parliamentary Army and Member of Parliament for Cheshire during the Commonwealth.

On his death, the title passed to his son, Richard, the 6th Baronet, High Sheriff of Cheshire from 1817 to 1818.

[2] The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother Edward Marcus Brooke (born 1970).

[7] Richard Brooke (died 1569), great-grandfather of the 1st Baronet, purchased the Norton Priory estate and was Sheriff of Cheshire in 1563.

His son, Alured de Vere Brooke (1841–1926), was a colonel in the Royal Engineers.