Stopford Brooke (politician)

Stopford William Wentworth Brooke (1859 – 23 April 1938) was a British politician.

Brooke was born in Kensington, London, the son of Stopford Brooke, an Irish clergymen, chaplain to Queen Victoria and writer, and his wife Emma (née Wentworth-Beaumont).

He left Parliament in the January 1910 general election and was succeeded by the Conservative Alfred du Cros.

He tried to re-enter Parliament at the December 1910 general election as a Liberal candidate at Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire and was defeated by the sitting Unionist MP William Ellis Hume-Williams by a narrow 215 vote margin.

[4] In 1934, Brooke, as Secretary and Treasurer of the Hurtwood Control Committee, raised £1,000 for bungalows to house gypsy families living in Hurtwood, Albury, Surrey.