Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough
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Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough KG , CBE , MC PC (NI) (born June 9, 1888 in Brookeborough , County Fermanagh , Northern Ireland ; † August 18, 1973 ibid.) Was a British politician of the Ulster Unionist Party and third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland .
life and career
Brooke was born in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh in 1888, the eldest son of Sir Arthur Douglas Brooke, 4th Baronet , after whose death he inherited the title of Baronet , of Colebrooke in the County of Fermanagh, in 1907 . He was a nephew of Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke , Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II .
Brooke was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . During the First World War he was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de guerre with a bronze palm branch . In 1920 he left the army to manage his Colebrooke estate.
In 1921 he was elected to the Northern Irish Senate, but left it a year later to become commander of the Ulster Special Constabulary . This was entrusted with the fight against the IRA in addition to the Royal Ulster Constabulary .
In 1929 he moved as a member of the Ulster Unionist Party in the Northern Irish House of Commons for the Lisnaskea constituency of County Fermanagh as a MP . He was appointed Minister of Agriculture in 1933, and seven years later he became Minister of Commerce. In 1943 he succeeded John M. Andrews in the office of Prime Minister. Brooke pursued an extremely unionist policy, he was a member of the Orange Order .
From 1946 to 1963 Brooke was also chairman of the Ulster Unionist Party. For health reasons, he resigned both as party chairman and prime minister in 1963. He then became Lord Lieutenant of County Fermanagh . Until the parliamentary election in 1969, however, he remained a member of the Northern Irish House of Commons, of which he became Father of the House in 1965. During his final years as a Member of Parliament, he publicly opposed the liberal policies of his successor, Terence O'Neill , who sought a better relationship with the Republic of Ireland and tried to give the Catholic population greater civil rights, as was required of them.
Basil Stanlake Brooke was married, the eldest and youngest of his three sons died in World War II. After the death of his first wife in 1970, he remarried at the age of 83. Brooke died on August 18, 1973 at his home on Colebrooke.
Awards
In 1921 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire . In 1952 he was raised to the hereditary nobility as 1st Viscount Brookeborough , of Colebrooke in County Fermanagh. He was appointed Knight of the Order of the Garter in 1965.
literature
- Basil Baronet of Brookeborough , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 39/1973 of September 17, 1973, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
- Newspaper article about Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough in the press kit 20th Century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur Brooke |
Brooke Baronet, of Colebrooke 1907-1973 |
John Brooke |
| New title created |
Viscount Brookeborough 1952-1973 |
John Brooke |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brooke, Basil, 1st Viscount Brookeborough |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brookeborough, Basil Stanlake Brooke 1st Viscount (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brookeborough , County Fermanagh , Northern Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th August 1973 |
| Place of death | Brookeborough , County Fermanagh , Northern Ireland |