A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Brerewood, Sir Robert

by John Hutchinson

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Admitted 21 October, 1607.

Son and heir of John Brerewood, of Chester, where he was born. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1605. He was called to the Bar 13 Nov. 1615. In 1637 he became a Judge of North Wales, and was elected Reader at the Inn the following year. In 1640 he became Serjeant-at-Law, And in the next year King's Serjeant. In 1643 he was knighted, and raised to the Bench 31 Jan. 1644. He died 8 Sept. 1654.

Though not himself an author, Robert Brerewood published the works of his uncle Edward, the first Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, to one of which, A Treatise on the Diversity of Language and Religion through the chief parts of the World, he wrote a "large and learned preface."