A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Broke, Sir Richard
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BROKE, or BROOKE, Sir RICHARD.
Judge.
d. 1529.
Fourth son of Thomas Broke, of Leighton, Cheshire. There is no record of his admission to the Inn, but he was Reader there in the autumn of 1510, being then a Serjeant-at-Law. He became a Judge of the Common Pleas in 1520, when also he was knighted. Six years later he was made Chief Baron of the Exchequer, both of which offices he held till his death in 1529. He was an ancestor of Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, the commander of the Shannon in the celebrated action with the Chesapeake in 1813.