Editing James Brooke (section)

==Early life==
[[File:National Museum KL 2008 (54).JPG|thumb|left|Attack by [[Illanun people|Illanun]] pirates on Brooke's ''Jolly Bachelor'', T. Datu, 1843]]

Brooke was born in [[Bandel]], near [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], but baptised<ref>Birth and Baptism records http://indiafamily.bl.uk/ui/FullDisplay.aspx?RecordId=014-000031913 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818093138/http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/FullDisplay.aspx?RecordId=014-000031913 |date=18 August 2016 }}</ref> in Secrole, a suburb of [[Varanasi|Benares]].<ref name="Brooke birth place"/> His father, Thomas Brooke, was an English judge in the Court of Appeal at [[Bareilly]], [[British India]]; his mother, Anna Maria was born in [[Hertfordshire]] and was the daughter of Scottish [[Peerage|peer]] Colonel William Stuart, 9th [[Lord Blantyre]], and his mistress Harriott Teasdale. Brooke stayed at home in India until he was sent to England at the age of 12 for a brief education at [[Norwich School (educational institution)|Norwich School]] from which he ran away. Some home tutoring followed in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] before he returned to India in 1819 as an [[Ensign (rank)|ensign]] in the [[Bengal Army]] of the British [[East India Company]]. He saw action in [[Assam]] during the [[First Anglo-Burmese War]] until he was seriously wounded in 1825 and sent to England for recovery. In 1830, he arrived back in [[Madras]] but was too late to rejoin his unit, and resigned his commission. He remained on the ship he had travelled out in – the ''[[Castle Huntly (1812 EIC ship)|Castle Huntley]] –'' and returned home via China.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jacob|first1=Gertrude L.|title=The Raja of Sarawak: An Account of Sir James Brooke, given chiefly through Letters and Journals, in Two Volumes, Vol. I|url=https://archive.org/details/rajasarwakanacc03jacogoog/page/n22/mode/2up|year=1876|publisher=Macmillan and Co.}}</ref>