Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough

Lieutenant Colonel The Right Honourable

The Viscount Brookeborough

KG KStJ
Lieutenant Colonel The Right Honourable; The Viscount Brookeborough; KG KStJ
Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2 July 2012
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	The Earl Erne
Deputy Lieutenant of Fermanagh
	In office; 10 September 1987 – 2 July 2012
Monarch	Elizabeth II
High Sheriff of Fermanagh
	In office; 1995–1996
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	W. R. M. Farrell
Succeeded by	Peter Moffitt Crawford
HM's Personal Lord-in-waiting
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1997
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 10 September 1987 ; Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by	The 2nd Viscount Brookeborough
Personal details
Born	30 June 1952 (age 69)
Political party	Crossbench

Alan Henry Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough, KG, KStJ (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 the Royal Agricultural College, 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 in 1992. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1993, and became Honorary Colonel of the 4th/5th Battalion, Royal Irish Rangers, in 1997.

Personal life[]

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 1,000 acres (4.0 km²) Colebrooke Estate, just outside Brookeborough in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.^[1] The centre of the estate is Colebrooke Park, an early 19th-century Neoclassical country house that is the ancestral seat of the Brooke family.

Honours[]

Brooke succeeded his father as The 3rd 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.^[2]

He has been a Lord-in-waiting to The Queen since 1997. He is President of the Co. Fermanagh Unionist Association and was appointed as an independent member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board in 2001.^[3] The Lord Brookeborough has represented The Queen as HM's Lord-in-Waiting, instead of The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, on the arrival of the U.S. President, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama to the United Kingdom on their official state visit, on 24 May 2011.^[4]

	Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (KG)	23 April 2018.^[5]
	Baronet	7th Baronet Brooke of Colebrooke
	Knight of the Order of St John (KStJ)	26 June 2014^[6]
	General Service Medal	with clasp Northern Ireland
	Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
	Accumulated Campaign Service Medal
	Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic	(Spain) 2018

Family[]

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.

The current Lord Brookeborough has no children. His younger brother, The Hon. Christopher Brooke (who has four sons), is his heir presumptive. Lord Brookeborough intends to eventually leave the Colebrooke Estate, including Colebrooke Park, to his nephew, his brother's eldest son and heir.

Arms[]

Coat of arms of Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough hide
	Coronet Coronet of a Viscount Crest A Brock or Badger passant Argent.^{[citation needed]} Escutcheon Or, a Cross engrailed per pale Gules and Sable differenced by a Crescent Sable, a canton of a baronet. Supporters Dexter: a Dolphin Sable. Sinister: a Lion double-queued Gules, langued Azure. Motto GLORIA FINES (Glory to the end)^[7] Orders Order of the Garter circlet (Appointed 23 April 2018)^[8] HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE (Shame on him who thinks evil of it) Venerable Order of Saint John (Appointed KStJ 26 June 2014)^[9] Banner The banner of the Viscount's arms used as knight of the Garter depicted at St George's Chapel.

References[]

^ Brookeborough Bomb Search Continues (4ni.co.uk)
^ House of Lords biography
^ Brookeborough pledges to represent Fermanagh on new Police Board, The Impartial Reporter, 27 September 2001 Archived 21 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine
^ President Obama to get royal welcome on UK state visit, bbc.co.uk, 24 May 2001
^ "Appointments to the Order of the Garter". The Royal Family. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
^ "No. 60915". The London Gazette. 26 June 2014. p. 12658.
^ "Brookeborough (1952)". Cracroft's Peerage. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
^ "Appointments to the Order of the Garter". The Royal Family. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
^ "No. 60915". The London Gazette. 26 June 2014. p. 12658.

External links[]

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Brookeborough

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Brooke	Viscount Brookeborough 1987–present	Incumbent
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New office created by the House of Lords Act 1999	Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords under of the House of Lords Act 1999 1999–present	Incumbent
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl Erne	Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh 2012–present	Incumbent

[1] Brookeborough Bomb Search Continues (4ni.co.uk)

[2] House of Lords biography

[3] Brookeborough pledges to represent Fermanagh on new Police Board, The Impartial Reporter, 27 September 2001 Archived 21 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine

[4] President Obama to get royal welcome on UK state visit, bbc.co.uk, 24 May 2001

[5] "Appointments to the Order of the Garter". The Royal Family. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.

[6] "No. 60915". The London Gazette. 26 June 2014. p. 12658.

[7] "Brookeborough (1952)". Cracroft's Peerage. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2018.

[8] "Appointments to the Order of the Garter". The Royal Family. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.

[9] "No. 60915". The London Gazette. 26 June 2014. p. 12658.

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