[1] He initially supported apartheid but his views changed early in his political and academic career.
[2] He attended Maritzburg College in Natal, South Africa where he matriculated in 1911.
He attended the University of South Africa and the London School of Economics.
[3] Brookes was involved with the South African Institute of Race Relations in the 1920s.
[7] After he retired from teaching at the University of Natal he was ordained as an Anglican priest.