William Drake Brockman

(1788-1847)

LBT ID: WiBrock1847	B/BAP: 1788-08-12 DIED: 1847-08-03
SOURCES: Welch, Harrow School Register, 1801-1893 (1894); Venn; Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry (1852) 1:144
Lord Byron's classmate at Harrow and teammate at cricket; after education at Queen's College, Cambridge he was curate of Sellinge before succeeding his father James Drake Brockman in the Beechborough estate in 1832.
REFERENCES TO William Drake Brockman: Lord Byron to John Murray, 18 November 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1820