[citation needed] He was a man of refined tastes, and a close student of numismatics and of English antiquities and philology.
He made considerable collections of books and coins and medals, in 1820 by Mr Sotheby over 15 days with 1715 lots, the sale was held at Wellington St, The Strand.
8), which led to the foundation of such a society, and gave an impulse to the production of an interesting series of privately printed tracts at Newcastle.
To that series he himself contributed several works, including: Also reprints of tracts on Henry III; on Robert, Earl of Salisbury; and of three accounts of the siege of Newcastle.
In 1882 a Glossographia Anglicana, from a manuscript left by Brockett, was privately printed by the society, called "The sette of odd volumes",' with a biographical sketch of the author by Frederick B. Coomer of Newcastle, who names one or two tracts by Brockett not noted above, and memoirs by him of Thomas and John Bewick, prefixed to the 1820 edition of Bewick's Select Fables.