Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsCompany directorsHistoryBorn in 1867, Brookes was educated at Wesley College and University of Melbourne, graduating B.C.E. in 1892. He was chairman of barious companies, member of the Commonwealth Board of Trade and Commonwealth Tariff Board, a delegate to the League of Nations Assembly in 1923, and Vice-Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932-1939. He was a member of the University of Melbourne Council 1933-1947.