Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke

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Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke (1608– 2 March 1643) English Civil War Roundhead General.

Robert Greville was the cousin and adopted son of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke. He was born in 1608, and entered parliament for Warwickshire in 1628. In the civil war, he commanded Parliament forces in Warwickshire and Staffordshire and was looked on by many as the Earl of Essex's eventual successor. In 1642 he gained the victory of Kineton. He took Stratfordon-Avon in February, 1643 and was killed shortly afterwards besieging Lichfield Cathedral on 2 March.

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature said of Greville,:

He was an ardent puritan, and, in 1641, wrote A Discourse opening the nature of that Episcopacie which is exercised in England, aimed at the political power of the bishops. In the same year was published his philosophical work The Nature of Truth. In this work, he refuses to distinguish between philosophy and theology. "What is true philosophy but divinity?" he asks, "and if it be not true, it is not philosophy."

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• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. THE GREAT REBELLION
• Chapter XII. Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy: Robert Greville, lord Brooke in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21) .Volume VII. Cavalier and Puritan.

Peerage of England
Preceded by Fulke Brooke	Baron Brooke 1628–1643	Succeeded by Francis Brooke