Peerages in the United Kingdom form a legal system comprising both hereditary and lifetime titles,composed of various ranks,and within the framework of the Constitution of the United Kingdom form a constituent part of the legislative process and the British honours system. The British monarch is considered the fount of honour and is notionally the only person who can grant peerages,though there are many conventions about how this power is used,especially at the request of the British government. The term peerage can be used both collectively to refer to the entire body of titled nobility,and individually to refer to a specific title. British peerage title holders are termed peers of the Realm.
Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke,1st Viscount Alanbrooke,,was a senior officer of the British Army. He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS),the professional head of the British Army,during the Second World War,and was promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1944. As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee,Brooke was the foremost military advisor to Prime Minister Winston Churchill,and had the role of co-ordinator of the British military efforts in the Allies' victory in 1945. After retiring from the British Army,he served as Lord High Constable of England during the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. His war diaries attracted attention for their criticism of Churchill and for Brooke's forthright views on other leading figures of the war.
The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union in 1801,when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain. New peers continued to be created in the Peerage of Ireland until 1898
Basil Stanlake Brooke,1st Viscount Brookeborough,,styled Sir Basil Brooke,5th Baronet,between 1907 and 1952,and commonly referred to as LordBrookeborough, was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician who served as the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from May 1943,until March 1963.
Viscount Alanbrooke,of Brookeborough in the County of Fermanagh,was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Viscount Brookeborough,of Colebrooke in the County of Fermanagh,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1952 for the Ulster Unionist politician and Prime Minister of Northern Ireland,Captain The Rt. Hon. Sir Basil Brooke,5th Bt.,P.C. (N.I.),M.P.
The Senate of Northern Ireland was the upper house of the Parliament of Northern Ireland created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It was abolished with the passing of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973.
Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil,7th Marquess of Salisbury,Baron Gascoyne-Cecil,is a British Conservative politician. From 1979 to 1987 he represented South Dorset in the House of Commons,and in the 1990s he was Leader of the House of Lords under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne. Lord Salisbury lives in one of England's largest historic houses,the 17th-century Hatfield House in Hertfordshire,and currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.
James Hamilton,5th Duke of Abercorn,,styled Viscount Strabane until 1953 and Marquess of Hamilton between 1953 and 1979,is a British peer,courtier and politician.
John Warden Brooke,2nd Viscount Brookeborough,PC (NI),was a Northern Irish politician. He was the son of the 1st Viscount Brookeborough,third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
Brookeborough is a village in County Fermanagh,Northern Ireland,at the westerly foot of Slieve Beagh. It lies about eleven miles east of Enniskillen,just off the A4 trunk road,and about five miles west of the County Tyrone boundary. It is situated in the civil parish of Aghavea and the historic barony of Magherastephana. It is situated within Fermanagh and Omagh district.
Sir Victor Alexander Brooke,3rd Baronet,was an Anglo-Irish sportsman-naturalist and baronet. He was the father of Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke,and grandfather of The 1st Viscount Brookeborough,Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. He shot and collected game trophies from around the world,took a special interest in deer and antelope species and published the first scientific description of the Persian fallow deer as a new species in 1875.
A list of the Lord Lieutenants of Fermanagh,located County Fermanagh of Northern Ireland,U.K.
Thomas Brooke,2nd Viscount Alanbrooke was a British peer. He was the son of Field Marshal Alan Brooke,1st Viscount Alanbrooke.
Donegal Castle is a castle situated in the centre of Donegal Town in County Donegal in Ulster,the northern province in Ireland. The castle was the stronghold of the O'Donnell clan,Lords of Tír Conaill and one of the most powerful Gaelic families in Ireland from the 5th to the 16th centuries. For most of the last two centuries,the majority of the buildings lay in ruins but the castle was almost fully restored in the early 1990s. It is now open to the public.
There have been six baronetcies created for persons with the surname Brooke,one in the Baronetage of England,one in the Baronetage of Ireland and four in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. As of 2015 four of the creations are extant,though one has been subsumed into a peerage.
Sir Arthur Brinsley Brooke,2nd Baronet,was an Anglo-Irish Conservative politician.
Alan Brooke,1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963) was a senior officer of the British Army.
