Other Events:

• Military Service: Rear-Admiral of the Fleet
• Office: Member of the Council of War
• Office: Recorder of Warwick
• Education: 17 Oct. 1564, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; Shrewsbury School
• Office: 1581; Clerk of the Signet to the Council of Wales
• Office: 1581; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber
• Office: 20 April 1585; Secretary for Wales
• Graduate: 11 April 1588, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Office: 1597; Ranger of Wedgnock Park
• Office: 1603; Secretary to the Council of Wales
• Decoration: 24 July 1603; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Hereditary Title: From 15 Nov. 1606 to 30 Sept. 1628; de jure 12th Lord Latimer, of Corby [E., 1299]
• Hereditary Title: From 15 Nov. 1606 to 30 Sept. 1628; de jure 13th Lord Latimer, of Corby [E., 1299]
• Hereditary Title: From 15 Nov. 1606 to 30 Sept. 1628; de jure 5th Lord Willoughby de Broke [E., 1491]
• Office: Between 1614 and 1621; Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Office: 1 Oct. 1614; Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
• Occupation: 1619; Joint Commissioner to treat with Holland
• Office: From 1620 to 1621; Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Warwickshire
• Hereditary Title: From 29 Jan. 1620/21 to 30 Sept. 1628; 1st Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court, co. Warwick [E., 1621]
• Office: Oct. 1621; Gentleman of the Bedchamber
• Will: 18 Feb. 1627/28
• Probate: 12 Nov. 1628

Notes:

In 1604 he received a grant of Warwick Castle, which was in a ruinous state.

In 1665 Lloyd says of him "sweet was his disposition, winning his converse, fluent his discourse, obliging his looks, public his spirit, and large his soul."

Graduate:
Master of Arts (M.A.)

Office:
He obtained this estate from the Queen in 1601.

Hereditary Title:
Granted with a special remainder to Robert and William Greville.

Died:
He died unmarried, after being stabbed by his servant, Hayward. Lord Dorchester wrote that "my Lord B. is dead of his wounds given him by his man, who slew himself." According to Gibbs, "he was stating to an old servant the disposition of his property, when the fellow flew into a passion at the smallness of the legacy which was to be left to him, and stabbed his master."