Sir Richard Broke or Brooke (died 1529), was an English judge, who served as Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
His ancestors had been Brokes of Leighton since the twelfth century, and came of a common stock with the Brookes of Norton.
On 11 July 1510[1] he obtained a royal exemption from becoming serjeant-at-law, an honour then conferred only on barristers of at least sixteen years practice at the bar.
Perhaps he was deterred, as others had been,[2] by the great expenses attending the promotion; but he did not long avail himself of his privilege, he being one of the nine Serjeants appointed in the following November.
He became a judge of the common pleas and knight in 1520,[4] and chief baron of the exchequer on 24 January 1526,[5] and continued in both offices till his death in May or June 1529.