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Revision as of 16:37, 5 August 2007 by Counter-revolutionary (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Francis Theophilius Brooke J.P., DL (1851 - 30 July 1920) was an Anglo-Irish Director of Great Southern and Eastern Railways and a member of the Earl of Ypres' Advisory Council . He was murdered, aged 69, by the Irish Republican Army.
Family
Brooke was a cousin of Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough the future Prime Minister of Northern Ireland . Brooke, a grandson of Hans Francis Hastings, 12th Earl of Huntingdon, on his mother's side, and of Sir Henry Brooke, 1st Baronet, on his father's, was married twice; firstly to Alice Moore, a daughter of the Dean of Clogher, (d. 1909) and secondly to Agnes Hibbert . By his first wife he had three children; Alice Gertrude (later Doyne), Lt. Col. George Frank Brooke and Henry Hastings Brooke.
Career
Brooke was also Deputy Lieutenant of County Wicklow and County Fermanagh, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, a Justice of the Peace for County Fermanagh and a Privy Councillor of Ireland (1918), thus he was styled The Rt. Hon. Francis Brooke.
In July 1912 he had attended the house party at Wentworth Woodhouse hosted for George V's stay there. .
Death
He was killed at his offices, in Dublin, by Irish Republican Army members Paddy Daly and Jim Slattery.
References
- A chronology of the Troubles
- Cambridge Journals
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- Bailey, C (2007). Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty, p130. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-670-91542-2