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Viscount Midleton, of
Midleton
Midleton (; , meaning "monastery at the weir") is a town in south-eastern County Cork, Ireland. It lies approximately 16 km east of Cork City on the Owenacurra River and the N25 road, which connects Cork to the port of Rosslare. A satellit ...
in the
County of Cork, is a title in the
Peerage of Ireland
The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is one of the five divisi ...
. It was created in 1717 for
Alan Brodrick, 1st Baron Brodrick, the
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
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and former Speaker of the
Irish House of Commons
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. He was created Baron Brodrick, of Midleton in the County of Cork, in 1715 in the same peerage. His grandson, the third Viscount, co-represented
Ashburton then
New Shoreham in the
British House of Commons
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The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 mem ...
. His son, the fourth Viscount, sat similarly for
Whitchurch for 22 years. In 1796 he was created Baron Brodrick, of
Peper Harrow
Peper Harow is a rural village and civil parish in south-west Surrey close to the town of Godalming. It was a noted early cricket venue. Its easternmost fields are in part given up to the A3 road (Great Britain), A3 trunk road.
Location and hist ...
in the
County of Surrey
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, in the
Peerage of Great Britain
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, with a special remainder to the heirs male of his father, the third Viscount. On the death of his son, the fifth Viscount, this line of the family failed.
He was succeeded by his first cousin, the sixth Viscount. He was the eldest son of
Charles Brodrick
Charles Brodrick (3 May 1761 – 6 May 1822) was a reforming Irish clergyman and Archbishop of Cashel in the Church of Ireland.
Origins and education
Brodrick was the third son of the George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton, 3rd Viscount Midleton ...
,
Archbishop of Cashel
The Archbishop of Cashel ( ga, Ard-Easpag Chaiseal Mumhan) was an archiepiscopal title which took its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. Following the Reformation, there had been parallel apostolic successions to the title ...
, fourth son of the third Viscount. His nephew, the eighth Viscount, briefly represented
Mid Surrey in the House of Commons as a
Conservative
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and served as
Lord Lieutenant of Surrey
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Lord Lieutenants of Surrey
*William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton 1551–1553?
*William Howard, ...
between 1896 and 1905. His son, the ninth Viscount, was a prominent Conservative politician and government minister (1880-1906) and from 1910 was the nominal leader of the
Irish Unionist Alliance
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(IUA) in Southern Ireland. Successful lobbying by him and associated Southern Unionists was instrumental in ensuring their representation in the
Seanad of the Irish Free State however he failed to win some safeguards for fellow Republic of Ireland unionists in the 1921
Anglo-Irish Treaty
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. In 1920 he was created Earl of Midleton and Viscount Dunsford, of Dunsford in the County of Surrey, in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
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which titles became extinct on the death of his son, the second Earl, in 1979.
The Irish titles and barony of Brodrick passed on to his second cousin, the eleventh Viscount. He was the grandson of Reverend the Hon. Alan Brodrick, youngest son of the seventh Viscount. the titles are held by the eleventh Viscount's son, the twelfth Viscount, who succeeded in 1988.
The ancestral seat of the Brodrick family was
Peper Harrow
Peper Harow is a rural village and civil parish in south-west Surrey close to the town of Godalming. It was a noted early cricket venue. Its easternmost fields are in part given up to the A3 road (Great Britain), A3 trunk road.
Location and hist ...
, its final form commissioned by the third Viscount, near
Godalming
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,
Surrey
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. The house was sold in 1944 by the second Earl of Midleton. The family's original seat was Ballyannan Castle near
Midleton
Midleton (; , meaning "monastery at the weir") is a town in south-eastern County Cork, Ireland. It lies approximately 16 km east of Cork City on the Owenacurra River and the N25 road, which connects Cork to the port of Rosslare. A satellit ...
in County Cork, which they occupied until , but continued to own; it was becoming a ruin by 1837.
Viscounts Midleton (1717)
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Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton
Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton, PC (Ire) (c. 1656 – 29 August 1728) was a leading Irish lawyer and politician who sat in the Parliament of Ireland between 1692 and 1715 and in the British House of Commons from 1717 to 1728. He was Speake ...
(1656–1728)
**
Hon. St John Brodrick (1685–1728)
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Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton
Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton (31 January 1702 – 8 June 1747) was a British peer and significant cricket patron who was jointly responsible for creating the sport's earliest known written rules.
Cricket patronage
Midleton succeeded his ...
(1702–1747)
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George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton
George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton (3 October 1730 – 22 August 1765) was a British nobleman.
Origins
Brodrick was the first and only surviving son of Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton and Mary Capell, the second daughter of Algernon Ca ...
(1730–1765)
*
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 wa ...
(1754–1836)
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George Alan Brodrick, 5th Viscount Midleton (1806–1848)
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Charles Brodrick, 6th Viscount Midleton
Charles Brodrick, 6th Viscount Midleton (14 September 1791 – 2 December 1863) was a British nobleman.
The son of Charles Brodrick, Archbishop of Cashel, and Mary Woodward, he succeeded to the peerage on the 1 November 1848. He was educated at ...
(1791–1863)
*
William John Brodrick, 7th Viscount Midleton
William John Brodrick, 7th Viscount Midleton (8 July 1798 – 29 August 1870) was an Irish peer and Anglican clergyman, styled Hon. William John Brodrick from 1849 to 1863. Brodrick was the second son of Charles Brodrick, Archbishop of Cashel. Lor ...
(1798–1870)
*
William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton
William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton (6 January 1830 – 18 April 1907), was an Irish peer, landowner and Conservative politician in both Houses of Parliament, entering first the Commons for two years.
Early life
Midleton was born on 6 Januar ...
(1830–1907)
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William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 9th Viscount Midleton (1856–1942) (created Earl of Midleton in 1920)
Earls of Midleton (1920)
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William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton (1856–1942)
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George St John Brodrick, 2nd Earl of Midleton (1888–1979)
Viscounts Midleton (1717; Reverted)
*Trevor Lowther Brodrick, 11th Viscount Midleton (1903–1988)
*Alan Brodrick, 12th Viscount Midleton (born 1949)
The
heir apparent
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is the present holder's son the Hon. Ashley Rupert Brodrick (born 1980)
Notes
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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External links
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Noble titles created in 1717
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