RUPERT CHAWNER BROOKE
(1887-1915)

English poet. Born in Rugby where he was educated, he travelled abroad after
a nervous breadown in 1911. In 1913 he won a fellowship in Cambridge. In
1914 he became an officer in the Royal Naval Division. He sailed for the
Dardanelles campaign but died of blood poisoning and is buried on the Greek
island of Skyros. Major works: War sonnets/Granchester/The Great Lover.