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Brooke
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22:(1836–1911) was a British Conservative Party politician, who was MP for Dudley and held a number of public posts including that of County Coroner for Dudley. He also was an art collector and benefactor whose legacy was the Town Hall and a museum in the town of Dudley.
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for the Dudley district on 9 August 1860 at a special County Court held at the New Town Hall, Dudley. His father, William
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of one of his great-great-grandmothers and had subsequently been adopted as a given name by some of her descendants. Robinson was educated at
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