George Mercer Brooke, Jr.
George Mercer Brooke, Jr. (October 21, 1914 – June 16, 2006) was Professor Emeritus of History at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI).
Background[edit]
George Mercer Brooke Jr. was born in Tokyo, Japan, son of George Mercer Brooke and Isabel Tilton Brooke.
He was educated at the VMI, where he obtained a bachelor's degree, he earned a master's degree from Washington & Lee University, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of North Carolina.
Career[edit]
He spent 38 years on the faculty of VMI, and as head of the History Department from 1965 to 1970. He retired in 1980. He was also an author on issues related to the Far East and American diplomatic history. His grandfather, John Mercer Brooke was instrumental in gaining diplomatic relations with the Far East, especially with Japan.
Colonel George Mercer Brooke Jr. was also President of the Stonewall Jackson (Jackson had been an educator at VMI) Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, member and officer of the Rockbridge County, Virginia Historical Society, and chairman of the VMI Sesquicentennial Committee.
Three Generations of Brooke family at Virginia Military Institute[edit]
(1.) John Mercer Brooke was an educator and inventor who taught at V.M.I. and partly for whom Maury-Brooke Hall is named. Brooke invented the deep-sea sounding and core sampling device and the Brooke gun.
(2.) George Mercer Brooke II (1875-) was an educator at VMI.
(3.) George Mercer Brooke Jr.; educator and author. He wrote, "Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy The Journal and Letters of John Mercer Brooke" (Studies in Maritime History)
Colonel Brooke donated a lot of original correspondence to VMI between Matthew Fontaine Maury and John Mercer Brooke( both USN & CSN). Both men were VMI instructors after the American Civil War and both had worked together at the United States Naval Observatory, USN, before the American Civil War. Matthew M. Maury and John M. Brooke knew each other and worked together most of their lives before, during, and after the American Civil War and were kinsmen just as George Mercer Brooke Jr. et al. is a kinsman to the Fontaine and Maury families with an extensive number of related descendants.
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