Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Henry Brooke: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last updated

Facts

Born c.1703 • Cavan • Ireland
Died October 10, 1783 • Dublin • Ireland
Notable Works “Gustavus Vasa, the Deliverer of His Country” • “The Fool of Quality”

Photos

Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke
See All Images →
default image
Lennox Robinson
Irish playwright
default image
Walter Macken
Irish author
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
default image
Patrick Kavanagh
Irish poet
Colum, Padraic
Padraic Colum
Irish-born American poet
default image
Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic
William Butler Yeats seated, wearing round glasses and a textured jacket, looking directly at the camera in a black and white portrait from around 1923.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Behan
Brendan Behan
Irish author
default image
Molly Keane
Irish author
default image
James Plunkett
Irish writer
default image
Louis MacNeice
British poet
default image
Charles Robert Maturin
Irish writer
default image
Saint John Ervine
British dramatist
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th baron of Dunsany.
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th baron of Dunsany
Irish dramatist
default image
Donagh MacDonagh
Irish author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author

Related Quizzes

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form