sentences:  In 1842 he resumed by Royal Licence the old family surname of Brinckman in lieu of his patronymic.Brinckman was the son of Theodore Broadhead, who also represented Yarmouth in the House of Commons, son of Theodore Broadhead, High Sheriff of Surrey in 1786, who assumed the surname of Broadhead in lieu of Brinckman by Act of Parliament.The latter's grandfather Theodore, Baron Brinckman, had emigrated to Britain from Hanover.