Herbert Robinson Brookes (1867 - 1963)

Born 20 Dec 1867 in Bendigo, Victoria (Australia)

Husband of Jessie Dennistoun (Strong) Brookes — married about 1897 (to about 1899) in Victoria, Australia

Husband of Ivy (Deakin) Brookes — married 3 Jul 1905 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 1 Dec 1963 at age 95 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Herbert Brookes was born in the Colony of Victoria (1851-1900)

Herbert Brookes is Notable.

Herbert Robinson Brookes was born in 1867 in or about Bendigo in the Colony of Victoria. He was the second son of William Brookes and Catherine Robinson.

Herbert was an Australian businessman, philanthropist, and political activist. He inherited substantial holdings from his father, and served as president of the Victorian Chamber of Manufactures. He was involved in numerous charities, and was a major benefactor to the University of Melbourne, his alma mater. He also filled various governmental positions, serving on the Board of Trade, the Tariff Board, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and briefly as the first Commissioner-General to the United States the equivalent of today's Ambassador of Australia to the United States.

Herbert was a member of the Australian Church, a Melbourne-based spiritist church known for its liberal theology. In 1897, he married Jessie 'Jennie' Strong, eldest daughter of the church's founder, Charles Strong. Widowed just two years later, in 1905 Herbert married a second time, to Ivy Deakin, daughter of Alfred Deakin, Prime Minister of Australia, who also attended the Australian Church. The couple subsequently had a daughter and two sons:

1. Group Captain Sir Wilfred Deakin Brookes (1906-97)
2. Jessie Deakin Brookes (1914-2014)
3. Alfred Deakin Brookes (1920-2005)

Herbert passed away in December 1963 and is believed to be buried in the St Kilda Cemetery.

Sources

• Victorian Births, Deaths & Marriages: BIRTH: BROOKS, Herbert Robinson - event: Birth - mother: Catherine Margaret ROBINSON - father: William - place of birth: S'HURST (Sandhurst near Bendigo) - registration year: 1868 - registration no. 5197/1868. first accessed online on the 6th of October, 2022 from the Victorian Family History Search searchable database at: https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history

• Australia, Newspaper Vital Notices, 1831-2001 MARRIAGE NAME

NAME: Herbert Brookes GENDER: Male NOTICE TYPE: Marriage MARRIAGE DATE: 3 Jul 1905 FATHER: William Brookes SPOUSE: Ivy Deakin PUBLICATION PLACE: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Victorian Births, Deaths & Marriages: DEATH: BROOKES, Herbert Robinson - event: Death - mother: Catherine Margaret ROBINSON - father: BROKES, William Hall - place of birth: Bendigo - place of death: South Yarra - spouse at death: <Unknown Family Name> - age at death: 95 - registration year: 1963 - registration no. 25329/1963. first accessed online on the 6th of October, 2022 from the Victorian Family History Search searchable database at: https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history

• Alison Patrick, Brookes, Herbert Robinson (1867–1963), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/brookes-herbert-robinson-5372/text9089, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 6 October 2022.

• Herbert Brookes from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. first accessed online on the 6th of October, 2022 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Brookes

• Find a Grave, database and images accessed 06 October 2022, memorial page for Herbert Robinson Brookes (20 Dec 1867–1 Dec 1963), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #189694882, citing St. Kilda Cemetery, St Kilda, Port Phillip City, Victoria, Australia; Maintained by BKGeni (contributor 46895980) . (note there is no gravestone photograph as yet)

• Prominent Personalities HERBERT BROOKES as published in the Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939) of Thursday 16 May 1929, Page 17. first accessed on TROVE on the 6th of October, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146451537?