Educated at Bury St Edmunds and Peterhouse, Cambridge, he was assistant master at Bury St Edmunds (1807) and rector of Freckenham, Suffolk (1829-35). He published Historical and Critical Remarks upon the Modern Hexametrists (1822).

REFERENCES TO Samuel Tillbrooke:

Robert Southey to Neville White, 25 April 1821 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)