Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Brookeborough KG CBE TD PC (Ire) |
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| Prime Minister of Northern Ireland | |
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In office 1 May 1943 – 26 March 1963 |
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| Preceded by | John Miller Andrews |
| Succeeded by | Terence O'Neill |
| Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament for Lisnaskea |
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In office 1929–1968 |
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| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Succeeded by | John Brooke |
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9 June 1888 Colebrooke Park, Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland |
| Died | 18 August 1973 (aged 85) Colebrooke Park, Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Ulster Unionist Party |
| Spouse(s) |
Cynthia Brooke (m.1919-d.1970) Sarah Eileen Bell Calvert |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Winchester College |
| Alma mater | Sandhurst |
| Religion | Anglican |
| Awards |
Military Cross Croix de Guerre |
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| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch | British Army |
| Years of service | 1908–1920 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit |
Royal Fusiliers 10th Hussars |
| Battles/wars | World War One |
Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough KG CBE TD PC (Ire) (9 June 1888 – 18 August 1973) was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician who became the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in May 1943, holding office until March 1963.
Lord Brookeborough (as Sir Basil Brooke, Bt, MP) had previously held several ministerial positions in the Government of Northern Ireland, and has been described as "perhaps the last Unionist leader to command respect, loyalty and affection across the social and political spectrum of the movement". He has also been described as one of the most hardline anti-Catholic leaders of the UUP.
Basil Stanlake Brooke was born on 9 June 1888 at Colebrooke Park, his family's neo-Classical ancestral seat on (what was then) the several-thousand acre Colebrooke Estate, just outside Brookeborough, a village near Lisnaskea in County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was the eldest son of Sir Arthur Douglas Brooke, 4th Baronet, whom he succeeded as 5th Baronet when his father died in 1907. He was a nephew of Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II, who was only five years his senior. His sister Sheelah married Sir Henry Mulholland, Speaker of the Stormont House of Commons and son of Lord Dunleath. He was educated for five years at St. George's School in Pau, France, and then at Winchester College (1901–05).
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