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BROOKE 339 Guards 3 Nov. 1900; served in S. African War 1 899-1 901 ;(') extra A.D.C, to Lord Milner in S. Africa 1901-02; Reuter's Correspondent during Russo-Jap. War 1904-05; M.V.O. (4th class) Nov. 1905; A.D.C. to the Inspector Gen. of the Forces 1907. He m., 29 Apr. 1909, at St. Margaret's, Westm., Elfrida Marjorie, only da. of Sir William Eden, 7th Bart., by Sibyl Frances, da. of Sir William Grey, K. C.S.I. She was b. 5 June 1887.] Family Estates. — These, in 1 883, consisted of 8, 262acres in co. Warwick, and of 1,840 in Somerset. Total, 10,102 acres, valued at ;£i 8,336 a year. Principal Residence. — Warwick Casde. The estates of the Maynard family consisted, in 1883, of 8,617 acres in Essex; 4,411 in co. Leicester; 802 in co. Northants, besides eight in co. Cambridge and six in Midx. Total, 13,844 acres, valued at ;^20,ooi a year. Principal Residence. — Easton Lodge, near Dunmow, Essex. BROOKFIELD See "BURDETT-COUTTS OF HiGHGATE AND BrOOKFIELD, CO. Mldx.," Barony; cr. 1871. BROUGH, see BURGH otherwise BOROUGH BROUGHAM AND VAUX OF BROUGHAM BROUGHAM AND VAUX OF BROUGHAM AND HIGHHEAD CASTLE BARONY. I. Henry Brougham, ist s. of Henry B., of I 18-^0 Brougham HalljC") by Eleanor, only child of the Rev. (■Q James Syme, Minister of Alloa, co. Perth, and Mary, 1868. sister of William Robertson, D.D., the well-known historian, was b. at the Cowgate, Edinburgh, 19, and L i860. bap., as Henry Peter, 30 Sep. 1778, at St. Giles's there. He was ed. at the High school, and at the Univ. of that city; Advocate (Edinburgh) 1800; F.R.S. 3 Mar. 1803; Barrister (Line. Inn), 1808. He sue. his father in the small family property, 13 Feb. 1 8 10. Having been since 181 1, the adviser of Caroline, Princess of Wales, he was, on 22 Apr. 1820 (when she had become Queen), appointed (*) For a list of peers and heirs ap. of peers who served in this war, see vol, iii. Appendix B. V.G. (•>) This Henry was son of another Henry B., a solicitor (agent for the Duke of Norfolk's estates in Cumberland), who had inherited Brougham Hall from a relative by whom it had been purchased from Mr. James Bird. {N. & Q., 5th Ser., vol. v, p. 522). Brougham Hall (not to be confounded with the historic and grand old ruin of Brougham Castle), was formerly called "The Bird's Nest" from having be- longed to the Bird family, and was claimed by a member thereof, but the verdict at the Appleby Assizes, 12 Sep. 1843, was against him.