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About Robert Brooke, Sr.
Robert Brooke Sr. was an English-born Anglican clergyman, planter, landowner, and colonial official who served as acting colonial governor of Maryland for several months in 1652. The patriarch of a prominent Maryland dynasty, he was the father of Major Thomas Brooke Sr., a Maryland magistrate, and the paternal grandfather of Thomas Brooke Jr., who also served as acting colonial governor of Maryland.
Everything about Robert Brooke, Sr. →- Position held
- Colonial Governor of Maryland
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 23, 1602
- Died
- July 20, 1655