Ingham Brooke

The Ven Joshua Ingham Brooke (14 February 1836 – 19 June 1906) was Archdeacon of Halifax[1] from 1888 until his death.[2]

Life

Brooke was born in Honley, the son of Thomas Brooke, a wealthy manufacturer.[3] He was educated at Cheltenham College and University College.[4] He was ordained deacon in 1860,[5] and priest in 1862.[6] After curacies in Retford and Batheaston he was the Incumbent at Easthope from 1866 to 1867; Thornhill from 1867[7] until 1888 (also Rural Dean of Dewsbury from 1871); and then of Halifax[8] from 1889 to 1904.[9]

Family

Brook married Grace Charlotte Godby in 1859.[10] They had three sons;[11] among the sons was Christopher Robert Ingham Brooke.[12] The other sons were William Ingham (born 1862) and Edward Vanrenen Ingham (born 1877); their six daughters were Margaret (born 1860, married Frederick Ralph Grenside), Emily Mary (born 1864, married George Alexander Grenside), Edith (born 1865), Grace Millicent (born 1867), Mabel (born 1873) and Barbara Joan (born 1880).[13]

Sir Thomas Brooke, 1st Baronet, Ingham Brooke's brother, was made a baronet in 1899.[14]

References
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  2. Deaths. The Times (London, England), Friday, 22 June 1906; pg. 1; Issue 38053
  3. Bronte, Charlotte; Brontë, Charlotte (1995). The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1829-1847. Clarendon. p. 188. ISBN 9780198185970.
  4. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Brooke, Joshua Ingham" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  5. The Standard (London, England), Wednesday, 26 September 1860; pg. 6; Issue 11271
  6. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p173: London, Horace Cox, 1898
  7. CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS AND VACANCIES Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), Thursday, 7 March 1867; Issue 647
  8. CHURCH INTELLIGENCE > The Bury and Norwich Post, and Suffolk Standard (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Tuesday, 6 November 1888; pg. 3; Issue 5533
  9. ‘BROOKE, Ven. Joshua Ingham’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 26 July 2017
  10. Jagger, Mary A. "The History of Honley (1914) - Chapter XV - Huddersfield Exposed: Exploring the History of the Huddersfield Area". huddersfield.exposed.
  11. Hulbert, Charles Augustus (1882). "Annals of the church and parish of Almondbury, Yorkshire". London, Longmans. p. 319.
  12. Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929–30). Armorial Families. 1 (7th ed.). London: Hurst & Blackett. p. 227.
  13. Howard, Joseph Jackson; Crisp, Frederick Arthur (1893). "Visitation of England and Wales". [London] : Priv. printed. pp. 76–8.
  14. BIRTHDAY HONOURS > Dundee Courier (Dundee, Scotland), Saturday, June 03, 1899; pg. 5; Issue 14333


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