Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, KG

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Basil Stanlake Brooke, (1st Viscount)

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Birthplace: Colebrooke Park, Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Death: August 18, 1973 (85)
Colebrooke Park, Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Immediate Family:

Son of Sir Arthur Douglas Brooke, 4th Baronet and Gertrude Isabella Brooke
Husband of Cynthia Mary Brooke, Viscountess Brookeborough, DBE
Father of Lieutenant Basil Julian David Brooke; John Warden Brooke and Lieutenant Henry Alan Brooke
Brother of Sylvia Henrietta Mulholland; Victor Mervyn Brooke; Sheelah Mulholland and Arthur Francis Brooke

Managed by: Michael Lawrence Rhodes
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About Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, KG

Born on the Brooke family estate at Colebrooke, County Fermanagh, on 9 June 1888, he became Sir Basil in 1907 when he inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father.

Brooke served in the Army in the First World War with 10th Royal Hussars, earning the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre. He left the Army in 1920 and returned to Colebrooke to farm his estates.

Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, KG, CBE, MC, PC (NI) (9 June 1888 – 18 August 1973), was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician who became the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in May 1943, holding office until March 1963.

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Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, KG's Timeline

1888
June 9, 1888
Colebrooke Park, Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
1920
April 18, 1920
1922
November 9, 1922
1923
October 29, 1923
1973
August 18, 1973
Age 85
Colebrooke Park, Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland