Viscount Midleton, of Midleton in the County of Cork, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1717 for Alan Brodrick, 1st Baron Brodrick, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and former Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. He was created Baron Brodrick, of Midleton in the County of Cork, in 1715 in the same peerage. His grandson, the third Viscount, co-represented Ashburton then New Shoreham in the British House of Commons. His son, the fourth Viscount, sat similarly for Whitchurch for 22 years. In 1796 he was created Baron Brodrick, of Peper Harrow in the County of Surrey, in the Peerage of Great Britain, with a special remainder to the heirs male of his father, the third Viscount. On the death of his son, the fifth Viscount, this line of the family failed.
William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen, styled by the courtesy title Viscount Cole until 1840, was an Irish palaeontologist and Conservative Member of Parliament. He also served as the first Imperial Grand Master of the Orange Order from 1866 until his death. He was Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland from 1846 until his death.
George Jay Gould I was a financier and the son of Jay Gould. He was himself a railroad executive, leading the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW), Western Pacific Railroad (WP), and the Manhattan Railway Company.
William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton, KP, PC, DL, styled as St John Brodrick until 1907 and as Viscount Midleton between 1907 and 1920, was a British Conservative and Irish Unionist Alliance politician. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1880 to 1906, as a government minister from 1886 to 1892 and from 1895 to 1900, and as a Cabinet minister from 1900 to 1905.
George Francis Child-Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, was an English peer and banker from the Villiers family. Lord Jersey gave one of the family seats, Osterley Park, to the British nation in the late 1940s.
William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex, was an English courtier and diplomat.
Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton was a British peer and significant cricket patron who was jointly responsible for creating the sport's earliest known written rules.
Roberte Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough,, was a French noblewoman who married into the English aristocracy and served as Viceregal Consort of Canada in the 1930s.
Thomas George Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield, known as Viscount Anson from 1831 to 1854, was a British politician from the Anson family.
William Keppel Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington, styled The Honourable from 1814 until 1829, was a British businessman and politician.
William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton, was an Irish peer, landowner and Conservative politician in both Houses of Parliament, entering first the Commons for two years.
George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton was a British nobleman.
George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1796, when he was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as Baron Brodrick.
The Honourable St John Brodrick, was an Anglo-Irish politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1709 to 1728 and in the British House of Commons from 1721 to 1727.
William John Brodrick, 7th Viscount Midleton was an Irish peer and Anglican clergyman, styled Hon. William John Brodrick from 1849 to 1863. Brodrick was the second son of Charles Brodrick, Archbishop of Cashel, and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. Lord Midleton was the Dean of Exeter in the Church of England from 1863 to 1867 and an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen.
Peper Harow is a rural village and civil parish in southwest Surrey close to the town of Godalming. It was a noted early cricket venue. Its easternmost fields are in part given up to the A3 trunk road.
Self-Portrait at the Age of 63 is a self-portrait by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. One of three dating to 1669, it was one of the last in his series of around 80 self-portraits, painted in the months before his death in October 1669. Despite the closeness of his death, and the concentration on his aging face, Rembrandt makes an impression of a self-assured and confident artist. It was bought by the National Gallery, London in 1851.
Sir James Beethom Whitehead was a British diplomat, who was British Minister to Serbia 1906–1910.
Emma Andalusia Frere Portman, Viscountess Portman (née Kennedy, formerly Dawson-Damer, Countess of Portarlington;, styledViscountess Carlow from 1881 until 1892, was an English aristocrat known for her marriages to two different peers.
Lieutenant Christian Arthur Wellesley, 4th Earl Cowley, known as Viscount Dangan from 1895 to 1919, was an English aristocrat and actor known by the name Arthur Wellesley.
