Sir Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet PC (Ire) (1726 – 7 March 1785) was an Irish baronet and politician. He was the son of Henry Brooke and his wife Lettice Burton, daughter of Benjamin Burton. Brooke was educated at

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and graduated with a

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in 1746. He was appointed High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1752, and became later Governor of

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. In 1761, Brooke was elected to the

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for

, a seat he held until 1783. Subsequently, he represented Maryborough until his death in 1785. On 3 January 1764, he was created a

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, of Colebrooke, in the County of Fermanagh and on 15 May 1770, he was invested to the

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Marriages and children

On 6 August 1751, he married firstly Margaret Fortescue, daughter of Thomas Fortescue and Elizabeth Hamilton. She died in 1756, and Brooke married secondly Elizabeth Foorde at The Palace in

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on 21 September 1775. By his first wife, he had two daughters and two sons. Brooke died on

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. His sons having predeceased him, the

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became extinct. His eldest daughter, Selina Elizabeth Brooke, married

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. His younger daughter, Letitia Charlotte, married Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet: they were the parents of

Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton Henry Brooke Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton PC (3 July 1776 – 8 June 1842), known as Sir Henry Parnell, Bt, from 1812 to 1841, was an Irish writer and Whig politician. He was a member of the Whig administrations headed by Lord Grey and Lord ...

, and ancestors of the leading Irish statesman

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brooke, Arthur 1726 births 1785 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland

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High sheriffs of County Fermanagh Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish MPs 1769–1776 Irish MPs 1776–1783 Irish MPs 1783–1790 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Fermanagh constituencies Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Queen's County constituencies