George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham
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George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham KG, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent and of Cooling Castle, Kent, was an English peer, soldier and magnate, who participated in the political turmoil following the death of King Henry VIII.
George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham, portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger
Detail of effigies of George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham, and of his wife Anne Bray, St Mary Magdalene's Church, Cobham, Kent. Anne displays on her chest the two coats of arms of Bray: Argent, a chevron between three eagle's claws erased sable (centre) and Gules, three bends vair (on her left side)
Monument and effigy of George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham, and of his wife Anne Bray, St Mary Magdalene's Church, Cobham, Kent. On his robe are painted the arms of St Amand: Or fretty sable, on a chief of the second three plates
Cobham, Kent
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Cobham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England. The village is located 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Gravesend, and just south of Watling Street, the Roman road from Dover to London. The parish, which includes the hamlet of Sole Street, covers an area of 1,240 hectares and had a population of 1,469 at the 2011 census, increasing from 1,328 at the 2001 census.
View of the Leather Bottle pub on The Street from St Mary Magdalene churchyard