Charles Alexander Brodie-Brockwell was born on February 23rd, 1875, in Owston, Yorkshire, England; second son of Rev. J.C. Brockwell, Vicar of Owston and Canon of Sheffield. He earned his B.A from Oxford in 1908 and also studied at University of Strassburg, Germany; M.A., ad eun., King’s College, Windsor, N.S. In 1901 he married Miss Irene Des Gouttes Bown Bown. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. C.A. Brodie-Brockwell was a lecturer in Cuddesden College, Oxford and in the London Diocesan Chapel Reading Union. From 1905 to 1907 he served as Alexandra Professor Divinity at King’s College, Windsor, N.S. He was a professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages at McGill University from 1907 to 1937 and was Head of the Oriental Department. He was also founder and president of the Windsor Literature Society. After the World War II, which he had spent in England, he came back to Montreal, where he worked on his research until his death in 1965.

During his lifelong research he investigated topics related to the Early Mediterranean cultures and civilization, Pre-Christian Hebrew, Semitic and Arabian cultures, and the early calendars and methods of counting.