Brooke, Thomas (1830–1908), manufacturer
Gender
Notes
“T. B. J.” perhaps initials from “Thomas Brooke, Jr.”
Biographical sources
Who was Who; W. T. Pike, The West Riding of Yorkshire at the Opening of the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Biographies (1902); Brian Barber, “Working in ‘The Cause of Bibliomania Throughout the World’: Sir Thomas Brooke (1830–1908), a Yorkshire Businessman-Bibliophile”, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (2018); Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Collected by Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., and Preserved at Armitage Bridge House, near Huddersfield (1891)
Articles
- Sir Bevis of Hamptoun, writing as T. B. J. — NQ 5.10.314