George Alan Brodrick, 5th Viscount Midleton (10 June 1806 – 1 November 1848) was a British nobleman. The son of

George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton (1 November 1754 – 12 August 1836) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1796, when he was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as Baron Brodrick. Origins Brodrick was ...

and Maria Benyon, he succeeded to the peerage in 1836. He was educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...

. He married Ellen Griffiths in 1833. He engaged the leading English architect, Decimus Burton, to make improvements in the streetscape of

Cobh Cobh ( ,), known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. With a population of around 13,000 inhabitants, Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and home to Ireland's ...

, Co. Cork. His death was attributed to intentional charcoal inhalation.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Midleton, George Alan Brodrick, 5th Viscount 1806 births 1848 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland