Gilbert E. Brooke

Gilbert Edward Brooke (28 March 1873 — 15 January 1936) was the Chief Health Officer of Singapore and a poet.

[1] In September 1897, Brooke was made a Government Medical Officer in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

By 1922, his poems had been published in The Royal Standard and Gazette of the Turks and Caicos, The Singapore Free Press, The Sydney Daily Telegraph, the Bath Chronicle, The Straits Times and the Malayan Review.

[3] He was also a co-editor of One Hundred Years of Singapore, which was commissioned by the Centenary Committee and published in two volumes in 1921.

He wrote the book's chapters on "Piracy", "The Science of Singapore" and the "Botanical Garden".

[4] Brooke married Alice Marie Swabey at the St Thomas à Becket Church in Bath on 6 October 1897.

[1] They had two sons and three daughters, one of whom married N. A. M. Griffin, the Chief Police Officer of Singapore.