Born April 29, 1803, Sekhrov, near Varanasi, India
[Died] June 11, 1868. Ballater, England. British soldier and explorer. After completing his studies in England, he joined the Madras Indian Foot in 1819, participated in the First Burmese War in 1825, and returned home after being seriously wounded. He also worked for the British East India Company, but resigned in 1830. He traveled to China via the East Indies, and showed a strong interest in the issue of European power in East Asia. In 1835, he inherited a huge inheritance upon his father's death. In 1838, he set out to explore the South Seas with his own armed sailing ship, the Loyalist, planning to colonize Borneo or Sulawesi. After arriving in Singapore, he assisted Muda Hasim, the Raja of Sarawak, in putting down a rebellion, and in 1841 was given the title of Raja of Sarawak by the Sultan of Brunei (→ Kingdom of Sarawak). In 1848, he was knighted. In 1861 he handed over the Raja title to his nephew Charles A. J. Brooke and spent the last years of his life in England. Brook
Brooke, John Mercer Born December 18, 1826, near Tampa, Florida
[Died] December 14, 1906. Born in Lexington, Virginia. American naval officer. Born in a family of professional soldiers, he joined the U.S. Navy in 1841. After studying at the Naval Academy in Annapolis for one year in 1846, he gained experience at sea. In 1849, he was transferred to the Coast Survey Corps. He was at the Naval Observatory for three years from 1851, where he invented a deep-sea sounding instrument. In 1853, he participated in the North Pacific Expedition, and in 1855, he surveyed the coastal waters of Japan that had been opened by M. Perry, before returning to Japan. In 1858, he went to Hong Kong on the Fenimore Cooper to survey the San Francisco-Hong Kong route, but was shipwrecked off the coast of Yokohama in August 1859 on the return journey. In 1860, he hitched a ride on the Kanrin Maru and returned to San Francisco, helping Kimura Keishu (Kiki), Katsu Kaishu and others to steer the ship. During the American Civil War, he served in the Confederate Army, designed the ironclad ship "Virginia," and developed the rifled, smoothbore Brooke gun. He was professor of physics at the Virginia Military Institute from 1965 to 1999. He is the author of "Yokohama Diary" and "Kanrin Maru Diary" (translated by Eiichi Kiyooka). Brook
Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul) Born: March 21, 1925, London. British director. Graduated from Oxford University. Influenced by J. Grotowski of Poland and Julian Beck of the Living Theatre, he made a great contribution to the development of avant-garde theater in the 20th century. In 1962, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and directed King Lear (1962) starring P. Scofield, Marat/Sade (64) by P. Weiss, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (70). Other works include A Secret Rendezvous in the Rain (60), Moderato Cantabile based on the original work by M. Duras, and King Lear (70). His main work is The Empty Space (68). In 1970, he established the International Center for Theatre Studies in Paris, where he has staged experimental plays such as Orgast (71) and Ik (76) with actors from around the world. He has visited Japan three times, most recently in 1991 to perform "The Tempest" in Tokyo. Brook
Brooke, Rupert [Born] August 3, 1887. Rugby
[Died] April 23, 1915. Skyros. British poet. He began writing poetry while at Rugby School, went on to Oxford University, and was active as a member of the Fabian Society. He published his first collection of poems in 1911. He participated in World War I and died of illness in Greece. He was a man of such beauty that he was compared to Apollo, and his early death was mourned. He achieved posthumous fame with his sonnets, Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen (1915). His other works include Letters from America (16), with a preface by H. James, and John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama (16). Brook
Brooke, Edward William Born: October 26, 1919, Washington, DC, USA
American black politician. Graduated from Howard University in 1941, and served as a captain in the black unit during World War II. After graduating from Boston University Law School in 1948, he became a lawyer in Massachusetts, and in 1962 became the state attorney general of the state. In 1966, he became the first black senator since the Reconstruction era. Unusually for a black person, he was a member of the Republican Party, and refused an offer to become a cabinet member in the first term of the Richard Nixon administration, and was re-elected to the Senate in 1972. A leading moderate black politician. Brook
Broke, Sir Philip Bowes Vere Born: September 9, 1776, near Ipswich
[Died] January 2, 1841. London. British naval officer. During the Anglo-American War that began in 1812, he was captain of the frigate Shannon, and captured the American frigate Chesapeake on June 1, 1813, while cruising off the coast of Boston. He was called "Brave Brooke" and was made a baronet in 1813. He became a rear admiral in 1830. Brook
Broke (Brooke), Arthur [raw]?
[Died] 1563
English poet and translator. He drowned at a young age while en route to rescue the Huguenots. His narrative poem The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562), a retranslation and adaptation from French of a story by M. Bandello of Italy, provided material for Shakespeare. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
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