Captain Basil Richard Brooke DSO & Bar (28 November 1882 – 8 October 1929) was a Royal Navy officer. Brooke was the son of John Townshend Brooke of Haughton Hall, Shifnal, Shropshire, and his wife Lady Wilhelmina, daughter of William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth. He was educated at Arnold House, Llanddulas, and entered HMS Britannia as a naval cadet in 1898. He was promoted midshipman later the same year, commissioned sub-lieutenant in November 1901, and promoted lieutenant in December 1903 and lieutenant commander in 1911.