Alan Henry Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough, KG, KStJ, DL (born 30 June 1952) is a Northern Irish peer and landowner. He is one of the 92 hereditary peers who remain in the House of Lords; he sits as a crossbencher. He is the current Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh.
The Viscount Brookeborough | |
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 Official portrait of Lord Brookeborough, 2019 | |
| Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh | |
| Assumed office 2 July 2012 | |
| Monarchs | |
| Preceded by | The Earl Erne |
| Deputy Lieutenant of Fermanagh | |
| In office 10 September 1987 – 2 July 2012 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| High Sheriff of Fermanagh | |
| In office 1995–1996 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | W. R. M. Farrell |
| Succeeded by | Peter Moffitt Crawford |
| HM's Personal Lord-in-waiting | |
| Assumed office 1997 | |
| Monarchs | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| as a hereditary peer 5 March 1987 – 11 November 1999 | |
| Preceded by | The 2nd Viscount Brookeborough |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| as an elected hereditary peer 11 November 1999 | |
| Election | 1999 |
| Preceded by | Seat established |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 June 1952 |
| Political party | Crossbench |
Early life and career
editLord Brookeborough was educated at Harrow School, Millfield and at the Royal Agricultural College (now Royal Agricultural University), Cirencester.
He joined the British Army in 1971, being commissioned into the 17th/21st Lancers. In 1977 he transferred to the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), which was to become the Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) in 1992. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1993, and became honorary colonel of the 4th/5th Battalion, Royal Irish Rangers, in 1997.
Marriage and family
editLord Brookeborough (known to his family and friends as Alan Brooke or Alan Brookeborough) married Janet Elizabeth Cooke (daughter of J. P. Cooke, of Doagh), now Viscountess Brookeborough, in 1980. They farm the 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) Colebrooke Estate, just outside Brookeborough in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.[1] The centre of the estate is Colebrooke Park, an early 19th-century Neoclassical country house that is the ancestral seat of the Brooke family.
Lord Brookeborough has no children. His younger brother, The Hon Christopher Brooke (who has four sons), is heir presumptive to the viscountcy. Lord Brookeborough intends to leave the Colebrooke Estate, including Colebrooke Park, to his nephew, his brother's eldest son and heir. He is third cousin to Queen Camilla, both descending from the 1st Baron Ashcombe.[2]
Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963) was also a member of the same family. Lord Alanbrooke was an uncle of the 1st Viscount Brookeborough.
Honours
editBrooke succeeded his father as Viscount Brookeborough in 1987. Although he lost his automatic right to a seat in the House of Lords, with all other hereditary peers after the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, Lord Brookeborough remained in the House as an elected crossbench hereditary peer.[3]
He has been a Lord-in-waiting to The Queen since 1997. He is President of the Co Fermanagh Unionist Association and was appointed an independent member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board in 2001.[4] Lord Brookeborough represented The Queen as Lord-in-Waiting at the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in the United Kingdom on their state visit on 24 May 2011.[5]
| Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (KG) | 23 April 2018[6] | |
| Baronet (Bt) | 7th Baronet Brooke of Colebrooke | |
| Knight of the Order of St John (KStJ) | 26 June 2014[7] | |
| General Service Medal | with clasp Northern Ireland | |
| Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal | 6 February 2012 | |
| Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal | 6 February 2022 | |
| King Charles III Coronation Medal | 6 May 2023 | |
| Accumulated Campaign Service Medal | ||
| Sash of the Order of the Aztec Eagle | (Mexico, 9 September 2015)[8] | |
| Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic | (Spain, 12 July 2017) |
Arms
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Sinister: a Lion double-queued Gules, langued Azure.
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
(Shame on him who thinks evil of it)
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Brookeborough Bomb Search Continues (4ni.co.uk)
- ^ "Relationship Calculator: Genealogics".
- ^ "House of Lords biography". Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
- ^ Brookeborough pledges to represent Fermanagh on new Police Board, The Impartial Reporter, 27 September 2001 Archived 21 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 'President Obama to get royal welcome on UK state visit, bbc.co.uk, 24 May 2001
- ^ "Appointments to the Order of the Garter". The Royal Family. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ "No. 60915". The London Gazette. 26 June 2014. p. 12658.
- ^ "TRH THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL AWARDED WITH THE MEXICAN ORDER OF THE AZTEC EAGLE". Official website of the Mexican Embassy in the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "Brookeborough (1952)". Cracroft's Peerage. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "Appointments to the Order of the Garter". The Royal Family. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ^ "No. 60915". The London Gazette. 26 June 2014. p. 12658.