Sir Robert Brooke (MP Aldeburgh, Suffolk)

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c.1637-1669. He was chairman of the committee for enquiry into the miscarriages of the civil war. He was educated privately by Daniel Milles, later rector of Pepys’ local church, St Olave’s. He acquired Old Wanstead House from his father-in-law, Sir Henry Mildmay the regicide.

Last updated by Phil Gyford on 17 May 2008

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• N Terry Foreman on Fri 19 Nov 2010, 11:21pm. Flag this

  Sir Robert Brooke — how he lived in
  Old Wanstead House (Wanstead, Essex)

  Sir Henry Mildmay, a regicide, had owned the house since 1619. His son-in-law, Sir Robert Brooke lived there from 1662-7. It was replaced around 1715 by another which was in turn pulled down in 1823. It is now the site of Wanstead Park. http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/8545.php

References in the diary

1665

May: 14

1667

Apr: 19
May: 1, 29
Oct: 18, 21
Nov: 19, 20, 21, 24, 25
Dec: 3, 8, 9

1668

Feb: 23
Mar: 10, 31