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STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE (1832– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 645 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUSTUS See also:BROOKE (1832– )  , See also:English divine and See also:man of letters, See also:born at See also:Letterkenny, See also:Donegal, See also:Ireland, in 1832, was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin . He was ordained in the See also:Church of See also:England in 1857, and held various charges in See also:London . From 1863 to 1865 he was See also:chaplain to the empress See also:Frederick in See also:Berlin, and in 1872 he became chaplain' in See also:ordinary to See also:Queen See also:Victoria . But in 188o he seceded from the Church, being no longer able to accept its leading dogmas, and officiated as a Unitarian See also:minister for some years at See also:Bedford See also:chapel, Bloomsbury . Bedford chapel was pulled down about 1894, and from that See also:time he had no church of his own, but his eloquence and powerful religious See also:personality continued to make themselves See also:felt among a wide circle . A man of See also:independent means, he was always keenly interested in literature and See also:art, and a See also:fine critic of both . He published in 1865 his See also:Life and Letters of F . W . See also:Robertson (of See also:Brighton), and - in 1876 wrote an admirable primer of English Literature (new and revised ed., 1900), followed in 1892 by The See also:History of See also:Early English Literature (2 vols., 1892) down to the See also:accession of See also:Alfred, and English Literature from the Beginnings to the See also:Norman See also:Conquest (1898) . His other See also:works include various volumes of sermons; Poems (1888); See also:Dove Cottage (189o); See also:Theology in the English Poets—See also:Cowper, See also:Coleridge, See also:Wordsworth, See also:Burns (1874); See also:Tennyson, his Art and Relation to See also:Modern Life (1894); The See also:Poetry of See also:Robert See also:Browning (1902); On Ten Plays of See also:Shakespeare (1905)'; and The Life Superlative (1906) .

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