Alan England Brooke, DD, FBA (1 September 1863 – 29 October 1939) was an English academic. A E Brooke

Brooke was born in

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and educated at

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. He entered

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in 1883, graduating B.A in 1886 and

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in 1890. He was

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of Kings from 1889 to 1926; and Provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1926 to 1933. Brooke was

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...

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in the

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in 1904. After a

curacy A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' () of souls of a parish. In this sense, ''curate'' means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy who are ass ...

at Gayton he was

Ely Professor of Divinity The Ely Professorship of Divinity was one of the professorships in divinity at the University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England ...

from 1916 to 1926, and

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of Ely during the same period. He was an

Honorary Chaplain to the King An Honorary Chaplain to the King is a member of the clergy within the United Kingdom who, through long and distinguished service, is appointed to minister to the monarch of the United Kingdom. When the reigning monarch is female, Honorary Chaplain ...

from 1918 until his death.

Publications

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S. Luke: the Historian of the Infancy. A Sermon.
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The Old Testament in Greek, according to the text of Codex Vaticanus, supplemented from other uncial manuscripts, with a critical apparatus containing the variants of the chief ancient authorities for the text of the Septuagint
'' *
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Johannine Epistles
' * ''The Commentary of Origen on S. John's Gospel: the text revised with a critical introduction and indices''

References

People educated at Eton College Provosts of King's College, Cambridge Fellows of King's College, Cambridge Alumni of King's College, Cambridge 1863 births 1939 deaths People from Pembrokeshire 20th-century English Anglican priests Honorary chaplains to the King Ely Professors of Divinity Fellows of the British Academy {{UCambridge-stub