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Charles Tucker Brooke received an A.B. from West Virginia University at the age of eighteen and an M.A. one year later. Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1904, he was a member of the first group of Rhodes Scholars from around the world. At WVU he was class poet and a member of Kappa Alpha. He studied at St. John's (more properly, the President and Scholars of Saint John Baptist College in the University of Oxford) and received B.A. and B. Lit. Degrees. In 1908, 1909, and 1910, his works were published in England. In 1909, he began a teaching career at Yale University, eventually becoming the Sterling Professor of English and a leading authority on Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature.

1. Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, First Rhodes Scholar from West Virginia University at Oxford

IDNO:
026915
Title:
Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke, First Rhodes Scholar from West Virginia University at Oxford
Date:
ca. 1904
Description:
Charles Tucker Brooke received an A.B. from West Virginia University at the age of eighteen and an M.A. one year later. Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1904, he was a member of the first group of Rhodes Scholars from around the world. At WVU he was class poet and a member of Kappa Alpha. He studied at St. John's (more properly, the President and Scholars of Saint John Baptist College in the University of Oxford) and received B.A. and B. Lit. Degrees. In 1908, 1909, and 1910, his works were published in England. In 1909, he began a teaching career at Yale University, eventually becoming the Sterling Professor of English and a leading authority on Shakespeare and Elizabethan literature.
A view of Rion House on the kitchen end taken by Tucker Brooke. This is a home of his aunt and uncle, 'Judge Daniel Bedinnger Lucas and Jene C. Harles. A friend of John Yates Belle, Confederate sho as spy, both buried in old Zion Church in...'

2. Rion House--Kitchen End View

IDNO:
027018
Title:
Rion House--Kitchen End View
Description:
A view of Rion House on the kitchen end taken by Tucker Brooke. This is a home of his aunt and uncle, 'Judge Daniel Bedinnger Lucas and Jene C. Harles. A friend of John Yates Belle, Confederate sho as spy, both buried in old Zion Church in...'
Scholarly portrait of C. F. Tucker Brooke, West Virginia University's first Rhodes Scholar.

3. Portrait of Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke of Morgantown, W. Va.

IDNO:
040464
Title:
Portrait of Charles Frederick Tucker Brooke of Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1905
Description:
Scholarly portrait of C. F. Tucker Brooke, West Virginia University's first Rhodes Scholar.