Joseph Brookbank

Who is Joseph Brookbank?

Joseph Brookbank, Brooksbank, or Brookesbank, was a minister and schoolmaster.

Brookbank was the son of George Brookbank of Halifax, and was born in 1612, for at Michaelmas term 1632, when he entered as a batler at Brasenose College, Oxford, he was aged twenty. He graduated B.A. and took orders.

In the Bodleian is the printed petition to the king, in September 1647, from John Brookbank and thirty-three other ministers, expelled from Ireland by the rebels. This John is probably identical with the subject of this article, who is called John on the title-pages of his 'Vitis Salutaris' and 'Compleat School-Master'.

In 1650 Brookbank describes himself as 'at present preacher of the word' at West Wycombe. Buckinghamshire. It is probable that be was settled at Wycombe at the date of his sermon on the 'Saints' Imperfection,' and possible that he was placed there in the room of Peel, silenced either at High or West Wycombe on 16 Jan. 1640.

Brookbank in 1651 was 'presbyter and schoolmaster in Vine Court, in High Holborn.' where his books were to be bought.