Brereton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Alexander Picton Brereton (1892–1976), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
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Ben Brereton, (born 1999), English footballer
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Cuthbert A. Brereton (1850–1910), British civil engineer
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Dan Brereton (born 1965), American artist and illustrator
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Dermott Brereton
Dermott Hugh Brereton (born 19 August 1964) is an Australian former professional Australian rules football player in the Australian Football League (AFL) who is regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation. Of Irish descent (his p ...
(born 1964), Australian rules footballer
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Ernest Le Gay Brereton (1869–1932), Australian mining engineer and academic
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Frederick Sadleir Brereton (1852–1957), British author
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Henry E. H. Brereton (1865–1957), New York politician
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Jack Brereton (born 1991), British politician
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John Brereton (disambiguation) John Brereton may also refer to:
* John Brereton, 4th Baron Brereton (1659–1718), English baron in the peerage of Ireland
* John Brereton (Adventurer and clergyman) (c. 1571–c. 1632), English gentleman adventurer, clergyman, and chronicler
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John Brereton, 4th Baron Brereton
John Brereton (1659–1718) was an English baron in the Peerage of Ireland.
He was born on 2 December 1659, the son of the William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton, and his wife Frances Willoughby. He lived at Brereton Hall near Sandbach, Ches ...
(1659–1718), English baron in the peerage of Ireland
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John Le Gay Brereton
John Le Gay Brereton (2 September 1871 – 2 February 1933) was an Australian poet, critic and professor of English at the University of Sydney. He was the first president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers when it was formed in Sydney in ...
(1871–1933), Australian poet
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John Brereton (footballer)
John Phyland Brereton (8 October 1934 – 17 April 2021) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Austral ...
(1935–2021), Australian footballer
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John Brereton (Irish lawyer) (1576–1629), English-born lawyer
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Joseph Lloyd Brereton
Prebendary Joseph Lloyd Brereton, (19 October 1822 – 15 August 1901), was a British clergyman, educational reformer and writer, who founded inexpensive schools for the education of the middle classes. Through his work and writings he influenc ...
(1822–1901), English educational reformer and writer
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Kevin Brereton (born 1972), Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer
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Laurie Brereton
Laurence John "Laurie" Brereton (born 29 May 1946) is a former Australian politician who was a state minister, a federal member of cabinet, and kingmaker in the election of several Australian Labor Party leaders, including Paul Keating and Mark ...
(born 1946), Australian politician
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Lewis H. Brereton (1890–1967), American military aviation pioneer
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Mocky Brereton, New Zealand rugby league footballer
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Patrick Brereton
Patrick Brereton is an author and academic at Dublin City University. He studies and teaches film, including a particular focus on the treatment of environmental issues
Environmental issues are effects of human activity on the biophysical envir ...
, author and academic at Dublin City University
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Paul Brereton (born 1957), Australian judge and soldier
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Robert Maitland Brereton
Robert Maitland Brereton (2 January 1834 – 7 December 1911) was an England, English railway engineer in India. In the United States he helped secure the first Act of Congress for the irrigation of California.
Engineering training
In 1853 Brer ...
(1834–1911), English railway engineer
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Robert Pearson Brereton (1818–1894), British engineer and colleague of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Thomas Brereton
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Brereton (1782–1832) was an officer of the British Army.
Career
He was descended from Sir William Brereton, Chief Justice and Lord High Marshal of Ireland, from the ancient and noble family of Brereton, Cheshire, En ...
(1782–1831), Irish soldier, governor of Senegal
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William Brereton (disambiguation) William Brereton may refer to:
* William Brereton (fl. 1406–1432), MP for Midhurst and Chichester
* William Brereton (courtier) (d. 1536) in the privy chamber of Henry VIII
* William Brereton (lord justice) (d. 1541), lord justice of Ireland
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William Brereton (fl. 1406–1432), MP for
Midhurst
Midhurst () is a market town, parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother inland from the English Channel, and north of the county town of Chichester.
The name Midhurst was first recorded in 1186 as ''Middeh ...
and Chichester
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William Brereton (courtier) (d. 1536) in the privy chamber of Henry VIII
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William Brereton (died 1559) (c. 1520–1559), MP for
Cheshire
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Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet
Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, (1604–1661), was an English Puritan who owned extensive estates in Cheshire, and was Member of Parliament for Cheshire at various times between 1628 and 1653. During the First English Civil War, he was comma ...
(1604–1661), Parliamentary General in the English Civil War
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Lords Brereton
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William Brereton, 1st Baron Brereton (1550–1630), MP for Cheshire in 1597, 1614 and 1621
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William Brereton, 2nd Baron Brereton
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Eng ...
(1611–1664), MP for Cheshire in 1661
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William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton
William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton FRS (4 May 1631 – 17 March 1680) was an English mathematician and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and became Baron Brereton in the Irish peerage in 1664. He was chairman of the Committee o ...
(1631–1680), MP for Newton in 1659 and Bossiney 1660
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William Brereton (British Army officer)
Lieutenant-General Sir William Brereton (29 December 1789 – 27 July 1864) was a British Army officer of the nineteenth century who served as colonel-commandant of the 4th Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery in the 1860s.
Family
Brereton was desc ...
(1789–1864), colonel in the Royal Horse Artillery
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William Brereton (Norfolk cricketer) (1786–1851), English cricketer
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William Brereton (priest)
William Brereton (circa 1726 – 5 January 1812) was an Anglican priest. He was educated at Eton College and Christ's College, Cambridge, and was rector of both Cottesmore, Rutland, and Pickwell, Leicestershire. He was Archdeacon of Stafford
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(1726–1812), Archdeacon of Lichfield, 1782–1801
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William Brereton (planter) (died 1822), planter in British Guiana
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