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English schools, some of them at home, and at nine years of age were sent to the grammarschool in Fredericksburg, taught by a Trinity gentleman from Dublin, by the name of Lennegan, who having left the country at the commence ment of the War of the Revolution was hanged for petit treason, and being sentenced to be quar tered after he was cut down, was only gashed down the thighs and arms, and delivered to his

mother, afterwards came to life, got over to Eng land, was smuggled over to France, being a Cath olic, and died in the monastery of La Trappe (according to Jonah Barrington, in whose work this account of him will be found). "My father sent us to other Latin and Greek schools, but finally en gaged a private tutor, — a Scotch gentleman of the name of Alex ander Dunham, by whom we were taught Latin and Greek. He was an amiable man, but entirely ignorant of everything but Latin and Greek, in which he was a ripe scholar. We read with him all of the higher classics; I read Juvenal and Perseus with great facility, and some Greek, BROOKE. — the Testament and /Esop's Fables. "Having passed the age of sixteen, the mili tary age of that period, I was appointed a First Lieutenant in General Harrison's Regiment of Artillery, the last of the year 1780; and my twin brother, not likely to part with me, shortly after got the commission of First Lieutenant in the same regiment. Our first campaign was under the Marquis La Fayette, in the year 1781, during the invasion of Lord Cornwallis. We came to "My father was devoted to the education of Richmond in that year, and were ordered to go his children. He sent my twin brother John and on board of an old sloop with a mulatto captain. myself very young to school. We went to several She was loaded with cannon and military stores 1 " Narrative of my Life," by Francis T. Brooke, destined to repair the fortification at Ports'mouth, which had been destroyed the winter before by Richmond, 1849.

Judge Brooke qualified on March 4, 1811, and was considered an ornament to the bench during his entire career, which was long and faithful. He was born, Aug. 27, 1763, at Smithfield, the residence of his father, upon the Rappahannock, four miles below Fredericksburg. His father was the youngest son of the Brooke who came to Virginia about the year 1715, and was with Governor Spotswood when he first crossed the Blue Ridge, for which he received from his Excellency a gold horse-shoe set with garnets, and worn as a brooch. As may be seen by the likeness accom panying this sketch, Francis T. Brooke was a handsome man. He had a life full of adven ture, and he has left a charming account of himself in an autobiog raphy.1 He was one of twin brothers, and one of his other broth ers became Governor of Virginia, while he FRANCIS T. was made a judge of the Supreme Court. They fought in the Revolution with great gallantry. After the term of service of Robert Brooke expired as Governor, he was nominated, in opposition to Bushrod Wash ington, as Attorney-General, and elected; and while holding that office in 1799, he died. Francis T. Brooke in his own words tells of the start he made in life. Says he :