Brooke, Stopford Augustus

BROOKE, STOPFORD AUGUSTUS: English Unitarian; b. at Letterkenny (16 m. s.w. of Londonderry), County Donegal, Nov. 14, 1832. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1856), and was ordained priest in the Church of England in 1857. He was successively curate of St. Matthew's, Marylebone (1857–59) and Kensington Church (1860–63). He was then chaplain to the princess royal, Berlin (1863–65), and after his return to England was minister of St. James's Chapel, York Street (1866–75), and of Bedford Chapel (1876–94), He was appointed chaplain to the queen in 1872, but in 1880 he withdrew from the Church of England, finding himself unable to accept the orthodox teaching concerning miracles. Among his writings special mention may be made of the following: Life and Letters of the late Frederick W. Robertson (2 vols., London, 1865); Freedom in the Church of England (1871); Sermons (1868–77); Theology in the English Poets (1874); A Fight of Faith (1877); Spirit of the Christian Life (1881); Unity of God and Man (1886); The Early Life of Jesus (1887); History of Early English Literature (1892); Short Sermons (1892); History of English Literature (1894); Study of Tennyson (1894); God and Christ (1894); Jesus and Modern Thought (1894); Old Testament and Modern Life (1896); The Gospel of Joy (1898); and Poetry of Robert Browning (1902).