Editing Rupert Brooke (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Rupert Brooke Birthplace (crop).jpg|thumb|left|Brooke's birthplace in Rugby in 2017]]
Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Road, [[Rugby, Warwickshire]],<ref>{{cite news
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 |archive-date = 27 February 2015}}</ref> and named after a great-grandfather on his mother's side, Rupert Chawner (1750–1836), a distinguished doctor descended from the regicide [[Thomas Chaloner (regicide)|Thomas Chaloner]]<ref>Rupert Brooke: Life, Death, & Myth, Nigel Jones, Head of Zeus (revised edition; originally published BBC Worldwide, 2003) 2014, p. 1</ref> (the middle name has however sometimes been erroneously given as "Chaucer").<ref name = TNA1/> He was the third of four children of William Parker "Willie" Brooke, a schoolmaster, and Ruth Mary Brooke (''née'' Cotterill), a school matron. Both parents were working at [[Fettes College]] in [[Edinburgh]] when they met. They married on 18 December 1879. William Parker Brooke had to resign after the couple wed, as there was no accommodation there for married masters. The couple then moved to Rugby in Warwickshire, where Rupert's father became Master of School Field House at [[Rugby School]] a month later. His eldest brother was Richard England "Dick" Brooke (1881–1907); his sister Edith Marjorie Brooke was born in 1885 and died the following year, and his youngest brother was William Alfred Cotterill "Podge" Brooke (1891–1915).<ref name="Friends: Brooke's admission">{{cite web
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[[File:Alfred_Brooke_(left)_and_Rupert_Brooke_(right)_with_dog_Trim.jpg|thumb|upright|Childhood photograph of Rupert Brooke (right) with his younger brother Alfred Brooke (left) and dog Trim (1898)]]
Brooke attended [[preparatory school (United Kingdom)|preparatory (prep) school]] locally at [[Hillbrow School|Hillbrow]], and then went on to Rugby School. At Rugby, he was romantically involved with fellow pupils Charles Lascelles, Denham Russell-Smith and [[Michael Sadleir]].<ref>Keith Hale, The Bisexual Brooke. Create Space Publishing, 2016.</ref> In 1905, he became friends with [[St. John Lucas]], who thereafter became something of a mentor to him.<ref name="Friends: Brooke's admission"/>

In October 1906, he went up to [[King's College, Cambridge]], to study classics. There, he became a member of the [[Cambridge Apostles|Apostles]], was elected as president of the university [[Cambridge Universities Labour Club|Fabian Society]], helped found the [[Marlowe Society]] drama club and acted, including in the [[Cambridge Greek Play]]. The friendships he made at school and university set the course for his adult life, and many of the people he met—including [[George Mallory]]—fell under his spell.<ref>Davis, Wade (2011). ''Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest''. Bodley Head.</ref> [[Virginia Woolf]] told [[Vita Sackville-West]] that she had gone [[skinny-dipping]] with Brooke in a moonlit pool when they were in Cambridge together.<ref>Vita Sackville-West letter to [[Harold Nicolson]], 8 April 1941, reproduced in [[Nigel Nicolson]] (ed.), ''Harold Nicolson: The War Years 1939–1945'', Vol. II of ''Diaries and Letters'', Atheneum, New York, 1967, p. 159.</ref> In 1907, his elder brother Dick died of pneumonia at age 26. Brooke planned to put his studies on hold to help his parents cope with the loss of his brother, but they insisted he return to university.<ref>{{cite web
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There is a blue plaque at [[The Orchard (tea room)|The Orchard]], Grantchester, where he lived and wrote. It reads: "Rupert Brooke Poet & Soldier 1887–1915 Lived and wrote at The Orchard 1909–1911, and at The Old Vicarage 1911–1912".