Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/DNB Epitome 06

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 * ✅Joseph Bottomley
 * ✅Sir Thomas Bouch
 * ✅John Boucher
 * ✅John Boucher
 * ✅Jonathan Boucher
 * ✅Weyman Bouchery
 * ✅Barton Bouchier
 * ✅George Bouchier
 * ✅Dion Boucicault
 * ✅Samuel Bough

2

 * ✅Edward Boughen
 * ✅Joan Boughton
 * ✅Swinton Boult
 * ✅Thomas Pownall Boultbee
 * ✅Hugh Boulter
 * ✅Matthew Boulton
 * ✅Richard Boulton
 * ✅Nicholas Bound
 * ✅Henry Bouquet
 * ✅Philip Bouquett

3

 * ✅George Bourchier
 * ✅Henry Bourchier
 * ✅Henry Bourchier
 * ✅John de Bourchier
 * ✅John Bourchier
 * ✅John Bourchier
 * ✅Robert Bourchier
 * ✅Thomas Bourchier
 * ✅Thomas Bourchier
 * ✅Isaac du Bourdieu

4

 * ✅Jean du Bourdieu
 * ✅James Bourdillon
 * ✅Peter Francis Bourgeois
 * ✅Sir Richard Bourke
 * ✅Richard Southwell Bourke
 * Robert Bourman
 * ✅Nicholas Bourn
 * ✅Samuel Bourn
 * ✅Samuel Bourn
 * ✅Samuel Bourn

5

 * ✅Thomas Bourn
 * ✅William Bourn
 * ✅Gilbert Bourne
 * ✅Henry Bourne
 * ✅Hugh Bourne
 * ✅Immanuel Bourne
 * ✅Nehemiah Bourne
 * ✅Reuben Bourne
 * ✅Robert Bourne
 * ✅Vincent Bourne

6

 * ✅William Bourne
 * ✅William Sturges Bourne
 * ✅Mrs Boutel
 * ✅Charles Boutell
 * ✅Henry Crewe Boutflower
 * ✅Edward Pleydell-Bouverie
 * ✅Henry Frederick Bouverie
 * ✅William Pleydell Bouverie
 * ✅Reynold Gideon Bouyer
 * ✅Catharina Bovey
 * ✅William Bovill
 * ✅Bovillus
 * ✅John Bowack
 * ✅Sir Edward Bowater
 * ✅John Bowden
 * ✅John William Bowden
 * ✅Samuel Bowden
 * ✅Thomas Edward Bowdich
 * ✅Henrietta Maria Bowdler
 * ✅Jane Bowdler

7

 * ✅John Bowdler the younger
 * ✅John Bowdler the elder
 * ✅Thomas Bowdler
 * ✅Thomas Bowdler
 * ✅Charles Synge Christopher Bowen
 * ✅Emanuel Bowen
 * ✅Sir George Ferguson Bowen
 * ✅✅James Bowen
 * ✅James Bowen
 * ✅✅John Bowen (painter)
 * ✅John Bowen
 * ✅Thomas Bowen
 * ✅Alexander Bower
 * ✅Archibald Bower
 * ✅George Bower
 * ✅Walter Bower
 * ✅James Scott Bowerbank
 * ✅George Hull Bowers
 * ✅Elizabeth Bowes
 * ✅Sir George Bowes

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 * ✅Sir George Bowes
 * ✅Sir Jerome Bowes
 * ✅John Bowes
 * ✅John Bowes
 * ✅Marmaduke Bowes, redirects though to Hugh Taylor (priest) where he is mentioned
 * ✅Martin Bowes
 * ✅Mary Eleanor Bowes
 * ✅Paul Bowes
 * ✅Sir Robert Bowes
 * ✅Robert Bowes
 * ✅Thomas Bowes (translator)
 * ✅Sir William Bowes
 * ✅Henry Bowet
 * ✅James Bowie
 * ✅Thomas William Bowlby
 * ✅John Bowle
 * ✅John Bowle (writer)
 * ✅Thomas William Bowler
 * ✅Caroline Anne Bowles
 * ✅Edward Bowles
 * ✅Sir George Bowles
 * ✅John Bowles
 * ✅Phineas Bowles
 * ✅Phineas Bowles
 * ✅William Bowles (naturalist)
 * ✅William Lisle Bowles
 * ✅Robert Kanzow Bowley
 * ✅Samuel Bowly
 * ✅Eddowes Bowman
 * ✅Henry Bowman (musician)
 * ✅✅Henry Bowman (architect)
 * ✅John Eddowes Bowman the Elder
 * ✅✅John Eddowes Bowman the Younger
 * ✅Walter Bowman (antiquary)
 * ✅Sir William Bowman
 * ✅Samuel Bownas
 * ✅Nicholas Bownde
 * ✅Peter Bowne
 * ✅William Bowness
 * ✅Sir John Bowring

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 * ✅John Bowtell
 * ✅Sir George Bowyer
 * ✅Sir George Bowyer
 * ✅Robert Bowyer
 * ✅William Bowyer
 * ✅William Bowyer
 * ✅John Boxall
 * ✅Sir William Boxall
 * ✅Edward Boxer
 * ✅Samuel Boyce
 * ✅Thomas Boyce
 * ✅William Boyce
 * ✅Charles Cunningham Boycott
 * ✅Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
 * ✅Archibald Boyd
 * ✅Benjamin Boyd
 * ✅Henry Boyd (translator)
 * ✅Hugh Boyd (essayist)
 * ✅Hugh Stuart Boyd
 * ✅James Boyd
 * ✅Mark Boyd
 * ✅Mark Alexander Boyd
 * ✅Robert Boyd
 * ✅Robert Boyd
 * ✅Robert Boyd
 * ✅Robert Boyd
 * ✅Robert Boyd
 * ✅Thomas Boyd
 * ✅✅Walter Boyd (financier)
 * ✅William Boyd
 * ✅William Boyd (minister)
 * ✅Zachary Boyd
 * ✅John Boydell
 * ✅Josiah Boydell
 * ✅Abel Boyer
 * ✅John Frederick Boyes
 * ✅Charles Boyle
 * ✅David Boyle
 * ✅Henry Boyle
 * ✅Henry Boyle

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 * ✅John Boyle
 * ✅John Boyle
 * ✅Michael Boyle
 * ✅Michael Boyle
 * Murragh Boyle (1648–1718) according to ODNB
 * ✅Richard Boyle
 * ✅Richard Boyle
 * ✅Richard Boyle
 * ✅Richard Boyle
 * ✅Robert Boyle
 * ✅Roger Boyle
 * ✅Roger Boyle
 * ✅Viscount Boyne
 * ✅John Boyne
 * ✅David Boys
 * ✅Edward Boys
 * ✅Edward Boys
 * ✅John Boys
 * ✅John Boys
 * ✅John Boys
 * ✅Sir John Boys
 * ✅John Boys
 * ✅Thomas Boys
 * ✅Thomas Shotter Boys
 * ✅William Boys (surgeon)
 * ✅Joseph Boyse
 * ✅Samuel Boyse
 * ✅Roger le Brabazon
 * ✅Sir William Brabazon
 * ✅Baron Brabourne
 * ✅Theophilus Brabourne
 * ✅Anne Bracegirdle
 * ✅John Bracegirdle
 * ✅Henry Bracken
 * ✅Charles Booth Brackenbury
 * ✅Sir Edward Brackenbury
 * ✅Joseph Brackenbury
 * ✅Robert Brackenbury
 * ✅Henry de Bracton
 * ✅David Bradberry

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 * ✅William Bradbridge
 * ✅Samuel Bradburn
 * ✅George Bradbury (judge)
 * ✅Henry Bradbury
 * ✅Thomas Bradbury
 * ✅Edward Braddock
 * ✅John Braddocke
 * ✅Laurence Braddon
 * ✅James Brade
 * ✅William Brade
 * ✅Henry Joseph Steele Bradfield
 * ✅John Bradford
 * ✅John Bradford (poet)
 * ✅John Bradford
 * ✅Samuel Bradford
 * ✅Sir Thomas Bradford
 * ✅William Bradford
 * ✅William Bradford
 * ✅Walter Bradick
 * ✅Charles Bradlaugh
 * ✅Charles Bradley
 * ✅Edward Bradley
 * ✅George Bradley
 * ✅James Bradley
 * ✅Ralph Bradley
 * ✅Richard Bradley
 * ✅Thomas Bradley
 * ✅Thomas Bradley (physician)
 * ✅William Bradley
 * ✅Thomas Bradock
 * ✅Richard Bradshaigh
 * ✅Ann Maria Bradshaw
 * ✅George Bradshaw
 * ✅Henry Bradshaw
 * Henry Bradshaw (parliamentarian)
 * ✅Henry Bradshaw
 * ✅James Bradshaw
 * ✅James Bradshaw (Jacobite)
 * ✅John Bradshaw
 * ✅John Bradshaw
 * ✅John Bradshaw (writer)

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 * ✅Lucretia Bradshaw
 * Richard Bradshaw (diplomat) (1610–1685) according to ODNB
 * ✅Thomas Bradshaw
 * ✅William Bradshaw
 * ✅William Bradshaw (writer)
 * ✅William Bradshaw
 * ✅Nicholas Bradshawe
 * ✅Anne Bradstreet
 * ✅Dudley Bradstreet
 * ✅Robert Bradstreet

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 * ✅Sir Samuel Bradstreet
 * ✅Thomas Bradwardine
 * ✅Sir Antonio Brady
 * ✅Henry Bowman Brady
 * ✅Hugh Brady
 * ✅John Brady
 * ✅Maziere Brady
 * ✅Nicholas Brady
 * ✅Robert Brady (writer)
 * ✅Thomas Brady
 * ✅Philip Bragg
 * ✅William Bragge
 * ✅Frances Elizabeth Anne Braham
 * ✅John Braham
 * ✅Robert Braham
 * ✅James Braid
 * ✅Benjamin Braidley
 * ✅James Braidwood
 * ✅Thomas Braidwood
 * ✅John Brailsford
 * ✅John Brailsford
 * ✅John Braithwaite
 * ✅John Braithwaite - (1696–1740) in the ODNB, DNB article largely outmoded
 * ✅John Braithwaite
 * ✅John Braithwaite
 * ✅Richard Braithwaite
 * Jocelin de Brakelonde
 * ✅Joseph Bramah
 * ✅John Bramhall
 * ✅John Bramis
 * ✅John Bramley-Moore
 * ✅Francis Bramston
 * ✅James Bramston
 * ✅James Yorke Bramston
 * ✅Sir John Bramston
 * ✅John Bramston
 * ✅George William Wilshere Bramwell
 * ✅John de Brancastre

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 * ✅Thomas Branch
 * ✅Thomas Brancker
 * ✅Barbarina Brand
 * ✅Hannah Brand
 * ✅Sir Henry Bouverie William Brand
 * ✅Sir Johannes Henricus Brand
 * ✅John Brand
 * ✅John Brand
 * ✅John Brand
 * ✅Thomas Brand
 * ✅Robert Brandard
 * ✅William Thomas Brande
 * ✅Gustavus Brander
 * ✅Charles Brandon
 * ✅Henry Brandon
 * ✅John Brandon
 * ✅John Raphael Brandon
 * ✅Joshua Arthur Brandon
 * ✅Richard Brandon
 * ✅Samuel Brandon
 * ✅✅Thomas Brandon

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 * ✅Samuel Brandram
 * Jeremiah Brandreth
 * Joseph Brandreth
 * Thomas Shaw Brandreth
 * Francis Frederick Brandt
 * James Brandwood
 * Thomas Branker
 * James Hews Bransby
 * Allen Robert Branston
 * ✅William Branthwaite
 * Thomas de Brantingham
 * Charles Branwhite
 * Nathan Branwhite
 * Peregrine Branwhite
 * Philip de Braose
 * ✅William de Braose
 * Joseph Brasbridge
 * Thomas Brasbridge
 * John Brasbrigg
 * John Brass
 * Anna Brassey
 * Thomas Brassey
 * ✅Richard Brathwaite
 * Bravonius - Redirect to Senatus of Worcester
 * Lord Braxfield
 * Anna Eliza Bray
 * Charles Bray
 * Edward Atkyns Bray
 * ✅John Bray
 * Sir Reginald Bray

36

 * ✅Thomas Bray
 * ✅Thomas Bray (archbishop of Cashel)
 * ✅William Bray (clergyman)
 * ✅William Bray (antiquary)
 * ✅Henry de Braybroc
 * ✅Robert de Braybroke
 * ✅Edward Wedlake Brayley
 * ✅Edward William Brayley
 * William Brayne
 * ✅Nicholas Breakspear

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 * John Brearcliffe
 * ✅Falkes de Breauté
 * David Brechin
 * Robert Bree
 * James Wilkinson Breeks
 * James Breen
 * Bregwin
 * John Brekell
 * Sir Nicholas Brembre
 * Sir James John Gordon Bremer
 * David Bremner
 * James Bremner
 * Robert Bremner
 * Brenan
 * John Brenan
 * Julius Lucius Brenchley
 * Brendan
 * Brendan
 * Charlotte Brent
 * John Brent
 * ✅Sir Nathaniel Brent
 * Edward Pelham Brenton
 * Sir Jahleel Brenton
 * John Brereley
 * Roger Brereley
 * ✅John Brereton
 * Owen Salusbury Brereton
 * Thomas Brereton
 * Thomas Brereton
 * Sir William Brereton (lord justice)
 * ✅William Brereton
 * William Brereton
 * ✅Edward Brerewood
 * Sir Robert Brerewood
 * Thomas Brerewood
 * Joseph Bretland
 * Thomas Bretnor
 * John le Breton
 * ✅Nicholas Breton
 * William Breton
 * Arthur Brett
 * George Brett
 * ✅✅Henry Brett (colonel)
 * John Brett
 * John Watkins Brett
 * Sir Peircy Brett
 * ✅Richard Brett
 * Robert Brett
 * ✅✅Thomas Brett
 * William Baliol Brett
 * Katharine Brettargh
 * Jacob Brettell
 * Jacob Charles Cates Brettell
 * Matthew Brettingham
 * Matthew Brettingham
 * Robert Furze Brettingham
 * John Durant Breval
 * ✅Daniel Brevint
 * Antony Brewer
 * Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

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 * ✅George Brewer
 * ✅James Norris Brewer
 * ✅ Jehoiada Brewer
 * ✅John Brewer
 * ✅John Sherren Brewer
 * ✅Samuel Brewer
 * ✅Thomas Brewer
 * ✅Thomas Brewer
 * ✅William Brewer
 * ✅Abraham Brewster

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 * ✅ Sir David Brewster
 * ✅Francis Brewster
 * ✅John Brewster
 * ✅Patrick Brewster
 * ✅Thomas Brewster
 * ✅William Brewster (pilgrim)
 * ✅Brian
 * ✅Alexander Briant
 * ✅Andrew Brice
 * ✅Edward Brice

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 * ✅Thomas Brice (martyrologist)
 * ✅Bricie
 * ✅Bricmore
 * ✅Saint Bride
 * ✅Frederick Lee Bridell
 * ✅Ralph Brideoake
 * ✅Bridferth
 * ✅Bewick Bridge
 * ✅John Bridge (magistrate)
 * ✅Richard Bridge

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 * ✅William Bridge
 * Henry Bridgeman
 * ✅John Bridgeman (bishop)
 * Sir Orlando Bridgeman
 * Charles Bridges
 * ✅John Bridges
 * John Bridges
 * Noah Bridges
 * Thomas Bridges
 * Saint Bridget
 * George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower
 * Thomas Edward Bridgett
 * ✅John Bridgewater
 * Charles Bridgman
 * Richard Whalley Bridgman
 * John of Bridlington
 * Giles of Bridport
 * John Briercliffe
 * Benjamin Brierley
 * Roger Brierley (minister)
 * Sir Oswald Walters Brierly
 * ✅Henry Briggs
 * Henry Perronet Briggs
 * John Briggs
 * John Briggs
 * John Joseph Briggs
 * Sir John Thomas Briggs
 * William Briggs
 * Nicholas Brigham
 * Charles Tilston Bright
 * ✅Henry Bright (painter)
 * ✅Henry Arthur Bright
 * Jacob Bright
 * Sir John Bright
 * John Bright
 * John Bright John Bright (1811–1889), orator and statesman ; son of ii R(H-l.lale miller; worked in his father's mill; made tirst public speech, 1830, in defence of temperance mowni'iit; gained reputation as orator by his opposition of principle of church rates, 1834-41; advocated abolition of capital punishment; formed friendship with Colxlen,. 1835; treasurer of Rochdale branch of AntiCornhiw League, 1840; began agitation in London against corn laws, lsi2,sind subsequently carried on campaignin midlands and Scotland; M.P.for Durham, 1843; ,,t,p.nl Maynooth grant, 1845; spoke against Lonl Ashl,.vt.-n hours factories bill, 1846; M.P.for Manchester, 1847 and 1H52; Introduced bill for repeal of game laws,  1848; advocated facilitation of sale of encumbered estates in Inland, provision of occupation for peasantry by increasal partition of landed property, and disestablishment; chairman, 1848, of select committee (for which he had moved, 1847) to inquire into obstacles to cultivation of cotton in India; subsequently assisted in raising funds for private commission of inquiry in India; joined Cobden in forming The CommonsLeague for financial and parliamentary reform, 1849; opposed Russell's resolution excluding Sir David Salomons from House of Commons as a Jew, 1851; recommended that government of India should be made a department of the British government, 1853; opposed war with Russia, 1853-4; opposed Russell's Oxford University reform bill, and grant to dissenting ministers in Ireland, 1854; defeated in election at Manchester and elected for Birmingham, 1857, 1858, 1865, 1868, 1873, 1874, 1880-5; advocated decentralisation in India, 1858 and 1879; opposed government reform bill, in speech in which he insisted on need for redistribution, 1859; negotiated preliminary treaty of commerce with France, 1860; member of committee to inquire into precedents for power of Lords to deal with tax bills, 1860; supported northern cause in American war, 1861; member of Jamaica committee for trial of Governor Eyre for execution of Gordon, 1865; supported, 1866, Gladstone's government reform bill, which was defeated; advocated Irish disestablishment, 1868; president of board of trade in Gladstone's first ministry, 18681870; member of cabinet and of privy council, 1868; temporarily withdrew from politics owing to ill-health, 1870-2; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster, 1873; opposed Beaconsfield's Turkish policy, 1876, and advocated neutrality; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster with seat in cabinet in Gladstone's ministry, 1880; supported Bradlaugh's request for permission to affirm, 1880; lord rector of Glasgow University, 1880; approved of re-establishment of autonomy of Transvaal, 1881; resigned chancellorship of the duchy of Lancaster on British intervention in Egyptian affairs, 1882; M.P. for central division of Birmingham, 1885; made in 1887 last public speech (an attack on Gladstone's home rule bill of 1886); honorary D.C.L. Oxford, 1886. Bright and Cobden were the two leading representatives of the emergence of the manufacturing class as a force in English politics after the Reform Act of 1832. Volumes of his speeches and addresses were published, 1868 and 1879. Bright's portrait, by Mr. W. W. Ouless, R.A., is in the National Portrait Gallery.
 * Mynors Bright
 * Richard Bright
 * Timothy Bright
 * ✅Thomas Brightman

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 * Cecilia Lucy Brightwell
 * ✅Saint Brigit
 * Thomas Brigstocke
 * Brihtnoth
 * ✅Brihtric
 * ✅Brihtwald
 * Brihtwold
 * George Brimley
 * Sir James Brind
 * ✅Richard Brind

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 * ✅James Brindley
 * ✅John Brine
 * ✅Henry Brinkelow
 * ✅John Brinkley (astronomer)
 * Thomas Brinknell
 * ✅John Brinsley the elder
 * ✅John Brinsley the younger
 * ✅Thomas Brinton
 * William Brinton
 * ✅Nicholas Briot

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 * Sir Charles Brisbane
 * Sir James Brisbane
 * John Brisbane
 * Sir Thomas Makdouqall Brisbane
 * Ralph de Bristol
 * Edmund Bristow
 * Henry William Bristow
 * Richard Bristow
 * John Syer Bristowe
 * Walter Brit
 * Brithwald
 * Brithwold
 * Ranulph Brito
 * William Briton
 * Thomas Brittain
 * John Britton
 * John Britton
 * Thomas Britton
 * William Briwer
 * Brixius

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 * Thomas Biggin Broadbent
 * William Broadbent
 * George Broadfoot
 * ✅William Broadhead
 * ✅John Broadwood
 * ✅Sir Bernard Brocas
 * ✅Ysgythrawg Brochmael
 * Daniel de Lisle Brock
 * ✅Isaac Brock
 * ✅William Brock (pastor)

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 * William John Brock
 * ✅William Brockedon
 * John Trotter Brockett
 * Marianus Brockie
 * Richard Brocklesby (clergyman)
 * ✅Richard Brocklesby
 * Charles Brocky
 * Alan Broderic
 * ✅Frances Freeling Broderip
 * John Broderip

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 * Robert Broderip
 * William Broderip
 * William John Broderip
 * Alexander Brodie, Lord Brodie
 * Alexander Brodie (sculptor)
 * ✅Benjamin Collins Brodie
 * ✅Benjamin Collins Brodie
 * David Brodie
 * George Brodie
 * Peter Bellinger Brodie
 * William Brodie
 * William Brodie
 * Alan Brodrick
 * Thomas Brodrick (naval officer)
 * John Brograve
 * Arthur Broke
 * Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke
 * Richard Broke
 * Robert Broke
 * Thomas Broke
 * Francis Brokesby
 * Adam de Brome
 * Alexander Brome
 * James Brome
 * Richard Brome
 * Thomas Brome
 * Edmund de Bromfield
 * William Bromfield
 * William Arnold Bromfield
 * Andrew Bromhall

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 * Henry Bromley
 * James Bromley
 * John Bromley
 * Richard Madox Bromley
 * ✅Thomas Bromley (chief justice)
 * ✅Thomas Bromley
 * Valentine Walter Bromley
 * ✅William Bromley
 * William Bromley
 * William Bromley

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 * John Brompton
 * Richard Brompton
 * Richard Bromsgrove
 * John de Bromyarde
 * Anne Brontë
 * Charlotte Brontë
 * Emily Jane Brontë
 * Patrick Brontë
 * Patrick Branwell Brontë
 * Abraham Brook

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 * Sir Basil Brook
 * ✅Benjamin Brook
 * Charles Brook (philanthropist)
 * David Brook
 * Joseph Brookbank
 * Sir Arthur Brooke
 * ✅Sir Arthur de Capell Brooke
 * Charles Brooke
 * ✅Charles Brooke (surgeon)
 * ✅Charlotte Brooke

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 * Christopher Brooke
 * Elizabeth Brooke (writer)
 * Frances Brooke
 * ✅George Brooke (conspirator)
 * Gustavus Vaughan Brooke
 * ✅Henry Brooke
 * Henry Brooke (divine)
 * Henry Brooke
 * Henry Brooke
 * Henry James Brooke

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 * Humphrey Brooke
 * Sir James Brooke
 * John Brooke (translator)
 * John Charles Brooke
 * ✅Ralph Brooke
 * Richard Brooke
 * ✅Robert Brooke (East India Company officer)
 * ✅Samuel Brooke
 * William Henry Brooke
 * Zachary Brooke (theologian)

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 * Joshua Brookes
 * Joshua Brookes
 * Richard Brookes
 * William Henry Brookfield
 * Charles Brooking
 * Charles William Shirley Brooks
 * Ferdinand Brooks
 * Gabriel Brooks
 * James Brooks (bishop)
 * John Brooks
 * ✅Thomas Brooks (Puritan)
 * Richard Brookshaw
 * Herbert Broom
 * Sir Frederick Napier Broome
 * William Broome
 * Matthew Broomfield
 * Richard Brothers
 * Edward Brotherton
 * Joseph Brotherton
 * Thomas of Brotherton

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 * Thomas William Brotherton
 * ✅Robert Barnabas Brough
 * ✅William Brough
 * William Brough
 * Henry Brougham
 * ✅Henry Peter Brougham Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), lord chancellor; educated at high school and university, Edinburgh: passed advocate, 1800; went on southern circuit; joined, 1802, founders of 'Edinburgh Review' contributing three articles to the first number; admitted member of Lincoln's Inn, 1803: supported himself in London mainly by writing for Edinburgh Review; secretary to Lords Rosslyn and St. Vincent on mission to Lisbon, 1806; secured good opinion of Wilberforce by his sympathy with anti-slavery movement; called to bar, 1808; M.P. for Camelford, 1810, for Winchelsea, 1815; advocated retrenchment and a sound commercial policy, drew attention to importance of popular education, and instituted inquiry into charity abuses, which he extended to Eton, Winchester, and the universities; was constantly consulted by the Princess of Wales, who, on becoming queen, appointed him her attorney-general; called within the bar, 1820; defended Queen Caroline during her trial, 1820; urged government to resist the dictation of the Holy Alliance in Europe, 1824; proposed vote of censure on government of Demerara, 1824; lord rector of Glasgow University, 1825; brought forward, 1828, scheme of law reform, which was occasion of vast improvement in system of common law procedure; M.P. for Knaresborough, and later for Yorkshire, 1830; received great seal, and was elevated to peerage as Baron Brougham and Vaux, 1830; effected considerable improvements in court of chancery, the abolition of court of delegates, the substitution for it of judicial committee of privy council, and institution of the central criminal court; brought in a bankruptcy bill which eventually became basis of n statute: published 'Observations on Education of the People 1H25; formed Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, ls-J5; foundel London University, 1828: made celebrated speech on second reading of "Reform Bill, 1831; lost office on dismissal of Lord Melbourne's government, 1834; advocated immediate abolition of slavery, 1838; sat constantly in supreme court of appeal and in judicial committee of privv council; strenuously opposed repeal of navigation acts, 1849; president of Social Science Association, 1857 and 1860-6; chancellor of Edinburgh University, 1860; received second patent of peerage, with remainder to his brother William and his heirs mule, Istiu. in recognition of services in cause of education and suppression of slavery; hon. D.C.L. Oxford: F.R.S. His critical, historical, and miscellaneous writings were published under his own direction in a collected edition, 11 vols., 1865-61. His works include An Enquiry into the Colonial Policy of European Powers, 2 vols. 1803, Historical Sketches of Statesmen in time of George III 1839-43, Demosthenes upon the Crown, translated 1810, and Life and Times of Lord Brougham written by himself, published posthumously, 3 vols., 1871.
 * ✅John Brougham
 * William Brougham
 * ✅Baron Broughton
 * Arthur Broughton

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 * ✅Hugh Broughton
 * ✅John Broughton
 * Richard Broughton ✅
 * Samuel Daniel Broughton
 * Thomas Broughton
 * Thomas Broughton
 * Thomas Duer Broughton
 * ✅William Grant Broughton
 * ✅William Robert Broughton
 * ✅John Allan Broun
 * Sir Richard Broun, 8th Baronet

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 * Henry Brouncker
 * William Brouncker
 * William Browell