Men-at-the-Bar/Brooke, William de Capell

by Joseph Foster

Brooke, Sir William de Capell, Bart., M.A., Brasenose Coll., Oxon, 1835, J.P. cos. Leicester and Northants, sheriff Rutland 1852, succeeded as 3rd bart. 1858, educated at Rugby, a student of the Inner Temple 25 May, 1820, called to the bar 25 May, 1827 (2nd son of Sir Richard Brooke de Capell Brooke, Bart., bar.-at-law); born 12 June, 1801; married 23 April, 1823, Hon. Catherine Watson, dau. of Lewis Thomas, 2nd Baron Sondes; she died 24 Nov., 1884, leaving issue (see Foster's Baronetage).

Great Oakley Hall, Northampton; The Elms, Market Harborough; Aghadoe, Youghal; University Club.