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Terry Brooke

rugby player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ125355363 ↗
Source-derived summary

Terence John Brooke (born 8 October 1940) is an English former international rugby union player.

Born in Surbiton, Surrey, Brooke began playing rugby while a Leicester schoolboy. He later attended Purley County Grammar School. After playing first XV rugby with Warlingham, Brooke moved on to Richmond to advance his career.

Brooke, a long-striding, strongly built centre, made two appearances for England during the 1968 Five Nations Championship, a loss to France at Colombes and win over Scotland at Murrayfield.

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“Terry Brooke” enters the record as rugby player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Terry, Brooke and rugby can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1940-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Terry, Brooke and rugby.
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Why this record matters

“Terry Brooke” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Terry, Brooke and rugby provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q125355363. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1940 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Terry Brooke” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.