Rupert Chawner Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Street Rugby on August 3, 1887. He was the third son of William Parker Brooke. During his childhood and as a pupil at Rugby School Rupert lived in Brooke House (today this house is known as School Field).  Before entering Rugby School at age 13, Rupert attended Hillbrow Preparatory School (this was a school for the son’s of Rugby School’s Masters). Hillbrow School was on Barby Road near to the Hospital.
Rupert entered Rugby School with a scholarship in 1901. He took part in sport at school and in 1905 he was in the XV, and in 1906 in the XI. Rupert won the School Prize for an English Poem on the "Bastille," and the King's Medal.

 
In 1906 he went to King's College, Cambridge as Senior Classical Scholar. Rupert was interested in social questions and was the author of two books of verse: "Poems," published in 1911, and " 1914," published in 1915, and of " Letters from America," published, after his death, in 1915. His poetry had many followers, Winston Churchill wrote a eulogy to Rupert (see Rugby School War Hero’s).

In 1914 Rupert enlisted in the Royal Naval Division and died on April 23, 1915 after developing sepsis from a mosquito bite. He is buried in an olive grove on the island of Skyros, Greece. The wooden cross was removed from the cemetery in Greece at the request of his mother and the Skyros cross (as it is now known) is with the Old Rugbeians at the Rugby School.  He is one of the First World War poets commemorated in the Poets Corner Westminister Abbey.

 
A statue of Rupert Brooke can be found on 8-10 Castle Street, Rugby. There is also a plaque marking Rupert’s birthplace on Hillmorton Road. 
For further information please see: Rupert Brooke’s memorial “Memorials of Rugbeians Who Fell in The Great War Volume I”, “ The Rugby School Register 1892-1921”, The Rugby School “Roll of Honour”, “Rupert Chawner Brooke Wikipedia”.