Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough

Lieutenant Colonel The Right Honourable
The Viscount Brookeborough
KG KStJ DL
Lieutenant Colonel The Right Honourable The Viscount Brookeborough KG KStJ DL
	Official portrait of Lord Brookeborough, 2019
Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2 July 2012
Monarchs	Elizabeth II; Charles III;
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
Monarchs	Elizabeth II; Charles III;
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	as a hereditary peer; 5 March 1987 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 2nd Viscount Brookeborough
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
	Incumbent
	as an elected hereditary peer ; 11 November 1999
Election	1999
Preceded by	Seat established
Personal details
Born	30 June 1952 (age 72)
Political party	Crossbench

Alan Henry Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough, KG, KStJ, DL (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 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.

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5]

	Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (KG)	23 April 2018^[6]
	Baronet (Bt)	7th Baronet Brooke of Colebrooke
	Knight of the Order of St John (KStJ)	26 June 2014^[7]
	General Service Medal	with clasp Northern Ireland
	Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal	6 February 2012
	Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal	6 February 2022
	King Charles III Coronation Medal	6 May 2023
	Accumulated Campaign Service Medal
	Sash of the Order of the Aztec Eagle	(Mexico, 9 September 2015)^[8]
	Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic	(Spain, 12 July 2017)

Arms

Coat of arms of Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough
	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)^[9] Orders Order of the Garter circlet (Appointed 23 April 2018)^[10] HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE (Shame on him who thinks evil of it) Venerable Order of Saint John (Appointed KStJ 26 June 2014)^[11] 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)
^ "Relationship Calculator: Genealogics".
^ "House of Lords biography". Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
^ 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.
^ "TRH THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL AWARDED WITH THE MEXICAN ORDER OF THE AZTEC EAGLE". Official website of the Mexican Embassy in the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
^ "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 Member of the House of Lords (1987–1999)	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 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] "Relationship Calculator: Genealogics".

[3] "House of Lords biography". Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2008.

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

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

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

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

[8] "TRH THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL AWARDED WITH THE MEXICAN ORDER OF THE AZTEC EAGLE". Official website of the Mexican Embassy in the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.

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

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

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

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v t e Current viscounts in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
Sorted by (historical) entity at time of grant
England	Robin Devereux, 19th Viscount Hereford
Scotland	Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland Keith Arbuthnott, 17th Viscount of Arbuthnott Ian Makgill, 14th Viscount of Oxfuird
Great Britain	Nicholas St John, 9th Viscount Bolingbroke Nicholas St John, 10th Viscount St John Christopher Lyttelton, 12th Viscount Cobham Evelyn Boscawen, 10th Viscount Falmouth Timothy Byng, 11th Viscount Torrington Henry Hood, 8th Viscount Hood
Ireland	Nicholas Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston Piers Butler, 18th Viscount Mountgarret Francis Annesley, 16th Viscount Valentia Henry Dillon, 22nd Viscount Dillon Charles Skeffington, 15th Viscount Massereene John Caulfeild, 15th Viscount Charlemont Richard Dawnay, 12th Viscount Downe Robert Molesworth, 12th Viscount Molesworth Adam Chetwynd, 11th Viscount Chetwynd Alan Brodrick, 12th Viscount Midleton Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 11th Viscount Boyne Nicolas Gage, 8th Viscount Gage Phil Monckton, 13th Viscount Galway Mervyn Wingfield, 11th Viscount Powerscourt Michael Flower, 11th Viscount Ashbrook Pyers Southwell, 7th Viscount Southwell Thomas Vesey, 7th Viscount de Vesci Edward Hewitt, 9th Viscount Lifford William Ward, 8th Viscount Bangor William Ward, 8th Viscount Doneraile Henry Pomeroy, 11th Viscount Harberton Robert Maude, 9th Viscount Hawarden Charles Skeffington, 8th Viscount Ferrard Charles Monck, 7th Viscount Monck Foley Vereker, 9th Viscount Gort
United Kingdom	Edward Jervis, 8th Viscount St Vincent Robert Dundas, 10th Viscount Melville Jeremy Addington, 8th Viscount Sidmouth Paul Pellew, 10th Viscount Exmouth Thomas Stapleton-Cotton, 6th Viscount Combermere Peter Clegg-Hill, 9th Viscount Hill Thomas Hardinge, 8th Viscount Hardinge Alexander Hood, 4th Viscount Bridport Christopher Portman, 10th Viscount Portman Francis Brand, 7th Viscount Hampden Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambleden Michael Holland-Hibbert, 6th Viscount Knutsford Christopher Brett, 5th Viscount Esher Giles Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen Matt Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley Charles Colville, 5th Viscount Colville of Culross Christopher Gully, 6th Viscount Selby Patrick Knollys, 4th Viscount Knollys Wenworth Beaumont, 4th Viscount Allendale Alastair Akers-Douglas, 4th Viscount Chilston Peter Curzon, 4th Viscount Scarsdale Edward Bigham, 5th Viscount Mersey Michael Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray Terence Kearley, 3rd Viscount Devonport William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor Ivor Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne Rhodri Philipps, 4th Viscount St Davids Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere Henry Allenby, 4th Viscount Allenby Frederic Thesiger, 4th Viscount Chelmsford James Long, 5th Viscount Long Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater James Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie Nicholas Samuel, 5th Viscount Bearsted Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon Robin Bridgeman, 3rd Viscount Bridgeman Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham Crispin Joynson-Hicks, 4th Viscount Brentford Adrian Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster Rupert Bathurst, 4th Viscount Bledisloe David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard Jonathan Samuel, 5th Viscount Samuel David Runciman, 4th Viscount Runciman of Doxford Nicolas Davidson, 4th Viscount Davidson William Weir, 3rd Viscount Weir Piers Inskip, 3rd Viscount Caldecote Jonathan Berry, 5th Viscount Camrose Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate Richard Margesson, 3rd Viscount Margesson James FitzRoy Newdegate, 4th Viscount Daventry William Addison, 4th Viscount Addison Richard Berry, 3rd Viscount Kemsley Peter Penny, 4th Viscount Marchwood Henry Montgomery, 3rd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley John Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough Jason Cooper, 3rd Viscount Norwich Christopher Leathers, 3rd Viscount Leathers Peter Ramsbottom, 4th Viscount Soulbury Thomas Lyttelton, 3rd Viscount Chandos Ashley Huggins, 3rd Viscount Malvern Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Timothy Lloyd George, 4th Viscount Tenby Clive Mackintosh, 3rd Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax Andrew Morrison, 3rd Viscount Dunrossil James Stuart, 3rd Viscount Stuart of Findhorn Jonathan Kemp, 3rd Viscount Rochdale Mark Slim, 3rd Viscount Slim Richard Head, 2nd Viscount Head Simon Lennox-Boyd, 2nd Viscount Boyd of Merton Christopher Mills, 3rd Viscount Mills Caspar Hare, 3rd Viscount Blakenham John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles James Manningham-Buller, 3rd Viscount Dilhorne
Italics in entries mean the titleholder also holds a previously listed viscountcy of greater precedence

v t e Current members of the Order of the Garter
Sovereign	The King (ex officio)
Royal Knights and Ladies (Companion)	The Duke of Kent The Princess Royal The Duke of Gloucester Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy The Duke of York The Duke of Edinburgh The Prince of Wales (ex officio) The Queen The Duchess of Gloucester
Stranger Knights and Ladies Companion	Queen Margrethe II of Denmark The King of Sweden King Juan Carlos I of Spain Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands Emperor Akihito of Japan The King of Norway The King of Spain The King of the Netherlands The Emperor of Japan
Knights and Ladies Companion	The Duke of Abercorn The Lord Butler of Brockwell Sir John Major The Lord Luce Sir Thomas Dunne The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers The Lord Stirrup The Baroness Manningham-Buller The Lord King of Lothbury The Lord Shuttleworth Lady Mary Fagan The Viscount Brookeborough Lady Mary Peters The Marquess of Salisbury The Baroness Amos Sir Tony Blair The Baroness Ashton of Upholland The Lord Patten of Barnes The Lord Peach The Lord Kakkar The Lord Lloyd-Webber 3 vacancies
Officers	Philip Mounstephen, Bishop of Winchester (Prelate, ex officio) The Baroness Manningham-Buller (Chancellor) Dr Christopher Cocksworth, Dean of Windsor (Register, ex officio) David White (Garter King of Arms, ex officio) Stephen Segrave (Secretary) Sarah Clarke (Black Rod, ex officio)