| BROOKES, CHRISTOPHER | 
England, fl.1649-51, MIM | 
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apprenticed to Elias Allen of the Grocers' Company in 1629; free of the Company, 1639; married to the daughter of William Oughtred; worked in metal; designed and made quadrants and planispheres; the name sometimes appears as Brooks.  | 
Oxford.  | 
Taylor 1(230); J. Brown 1.  |