Humphrey Brooke, MD, was born in London and educated at Merchant Taylors’ school, whence he was elected scholar of St John’s college, Oxford, of which society he subsequently became a fellow. He took the degree of AB 22nd April, 1640; MB 8th December, 1646; and MD 19th January, 1659. He was incorporated at Cambridge on the last-named degree in 1684. Dr Brooke was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 24th December, 1660; and a Fellow 13th April, 1674. He was Censor in 1675, 1680, 1681, 1684, 1692; Elect, 16th June, 1687; Consiliarius, 1693; and dying the ix of the Calends of December, 1693, aged 76, was buried in the church of St Andrew Undershaft.

Dr Brooke was the author of A Conservatory of Health, comprised in a plain and practical Discourse upon the Six Particulars necessary for Man’s Life. 12 mo. Lond. 1650.

William Munk