Thomas Brooke was an English

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priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deity, deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in parti ...

, most notably

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from 1721 until his death in 1732. Allen was born in

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and educated at

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. He was also concurrently the Archdeacon of Staffordshire.Horn, Joyce M. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, 10, pp. 14–16

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