Zachary Nugent Brooke (1 December 1883 – 2 October 1946) was a British

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Life

Born on 1 December 1883, Brooke was educated at

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and

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...

. In 1908, he was elected to a Drosier Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College,

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. He was appointed as the second Professor of Medieval History at Cambridge in 1944. He was appointed as a Fellow of the

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in 1940.Professor Zachary Nugent Brooke FBA 1883-1946
Retrieved 21 December 2019. Brooke is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground, off Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, with his wife Rosa Grace Brooke (1888-1964). He was the father of Christopher N. L. Brooke, who was also a medieval historian and fellow of Gonville and Caius College. He died on 7 October 1946.

Works

His published works include: *''The English Church and the Papacy: From the Conquest to the Reign of John'' (

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; ) *''A History of Europe from 911 to 1198 (History of medieval and modern Europe;vol.2)'' ( Methuen)

References

External links

Research papers of Zachary Nugent Brooke
from

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1883 births 1946 deaths British medievalists People educated at Bradfield College Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellows of the British Academy Professors of Medieval History (Cambridge) 20th-century British historians {{UK-historian-stub