Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Brooke, Augustus Stopford
BROOKE, The Rev. Augustus Stopford, born at Dublin in 1832, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he gained the Downe prize and the Vice-Chancellor's prize for English verse. He graduated B.A. in 1856 and M.A. in 1858. He was curate of St. Matthew, Marylebone (1857–59); curate of Kensington (1860–63); minister of St. James's Chapel, York Street, St. James's Square (1866–75); and minister of Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury (June, 1876). He was appointed a chaplain in ordinary to the Queen in 1872. Mr. Brooke is the author of "Life and Letters of the late Frederick W. Robertson," 1865; "Theology in the English Poets," 1874; "Primer of English Literature;" and four vols. of "Sermons," 1868–77. In 1880 he seceded from the Church of England, his reason for this step being that he had ceased to believe that miracles were credible, and that, since the Established Church founded its whole scheme of doctrine on the miracle of the Incarnation, disbelief in that miracle put him outside the doctrines of the Church.