Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough
{{Short description|British peer (born 1952)}}
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| name = The Viscount Brookeborough
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| caption = Official portrait of Lord Brookeborough, 2019
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| office2 = Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh
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| term_start2 = 2 July 2012
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| predecessor2 = The Earl Erne
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| office3 = Deputy Lieutenant of Fermanagh
| monarch3 = Elizabeth II
| term_start3 = 10 September 1987
| term_end3 = 2 July 2012
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| successor3 =
| office4 = High Sheriff of Fermanagh
| monarch4 = Elizabeth II
| term_start4 = 1995
| term_end4 = 1996
| predecessor4 = W. R. M. Farrell
| successor4 = Peter Moffitt Crawford
| office5 = HM's Personal Lord-in-waiting
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| term_start5 = 1997
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| office6 = Member of the House of Lords
| status6 = Lord Temporal
| term_label6 = as a hereditary peer
| term_start6 = 5 March 1987
| term_end6 = 11 November 1999
| predecessor6 = The 2nd Viscount Brookeborough
| successor6 = Seat abolished
| term_label7 = as an elected hereditary peer
| term_start7 = 11 November 1999
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| 1blankname7 = Election
| 1namedata7 = 1999
| predecessor7 = Seat established
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|06|30|df=y}}
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Alan Henry Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough (born 30 June 1952) is a Northern Irish peer and landowner. He is one of the 92 hereditary peers who remain in the House of Lords; he sits as a crossbencher. He is the current Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh.
Early life and career
Lord Brookeborough was educated at Harrow School, Millfield and at the Royal Agricultural College (now Royal Agricultural University), Cirencester.
He joined the British Army in 1971, being commissioned into the 17th/21st Lancers. In 1977 he transferred to the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), which was to become the Royal Irish Regiment (RIR) in 1992. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1993, and became honorary colonel of the 4th/5th Battalion, Royal Irish Rangers, in 1997.
Marriage and family
Lord Brookeborough (known to his family and friends as Alan Brooke or Alan Brookeborough) married Janet Elizabeth Cooke (daughter of J. P. Cooke, of Doagh), now Viscountess Brookeborough, in 1980. They farm the {{convert|1000|acre|km2}} Colebrooke Estate, just outside Brookeborough in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.[http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp?id=7938 Brookeborough Bomb Search Continues (4ni.co.uk)] The centre of the estate is Colebrooke Park, an early 19th-century Neoclassical country house that is the ancestral seat of the Brooke family.
Lord Brookeborough has no children. His younger brother, The Hon Christopher Brooke (who has four sons and a daughter), is heir presumptive to the viscountcy. Lord Brookeborough intends to leave the Colebrooke Estate, including Colebrooke Park, to his nephew, his brother's eldest son and heir. He is third cousin to Queen Camilla, both descending from the 1st Baron Ashcombe.{{cite web | url=https://www.genealogics.org/relationship.php?altprimarypersonID=I00082651&savedpersonID=I00082651&secondpersonID=I00714939&maxrels=1&disallowspouses=1&generations=8&tree=LEO&primarypersonID=I00082651 | title=Relationship Calculator: Genealogics }}
Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963) was also a member of the same family. Lord Alanbrooke was an uncle of the 1st Viscount Brookeborough.
Honours
Brooke succeeded his father as Viscount Brookeborough in 1987. Although he lost his automatic right to a seat in the House of Lords, with all other hereditary peers after the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, Lord Brookeborough remained in the House as an elected crossbench hereditary peer.{{Cite web |url=http://biographies.parliament.uk/parliament/default.asp?id=26722 |title=House of Lords biography |access-date=10 June 2008 |archive-date=23 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423153552/http://biographies.parliament.uk/parliament/default.asp?id=26722 |url-status=dead }}
He has been a Lord-in-waiting to The Queen since 1997. He is President of the Co Fermanagh Unionist Association and was appointed an independent member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board in 2001.[http://www.impartialreporter.com/archive/2001-09-27/news/story2263.html Brookeborough pledges to represent Fermanagh on new Police Board, The Impartial Reporter, 27 September 2001] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060321103901/http://www.impartialreporter.com/archive/2001-09-27/news/story2263.html |date=21 March 2006 }} Lord Brookeborough represented The Queen as Lord-in-Waiting at the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in the United Kingdom on their state visit on 24 May 2011.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13506898 'President Obama to get royal welcome on UK state visit', bbc.co.uk, 24 May 2001]
Arms
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|coronet = Coronet of a Viscount
|escutcheon = Or, a Cross engrailed per pale Gules and Sable differenced by a Crescent Sable, a canton of a baronet.
|crest = A Brock or Badger passant Argent.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}
|supporters = Dexter: a Dolphin Sable.
Sinister: a Lion double-queued Gules, langued Azure.
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|motto = GLORIA FINES (Glory to the end){{cite web |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/brookeborough1952.htm |title=Brookeborough (1952) |website=Cracroft's Peerage |access-date=2018-05-20 |archive-date=22 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322185509/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/brookeborough1952.htm |url-status=live }}
|orders = Order of the Garter circlet (Appointed 23 April 2018){{cite web |url=https://www.royal.uk/appointments-order-garter |title=Appointments to the Order of the Garter |date=23 April 2018 |website=The Royal Family |access-date=2018-04-23}}
HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
(Shame on him who thinks evil of it)
Venerable Order of Saint John (Appointed KStJ 26 June 2014){{London Gazette|issue=60915|page=12658|date=26 June 2014}}
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See also
References
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External links
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