Brendan Bracken
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Bracken PC |
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Brendan Bracken in 1947
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| First Lord of the Admiralty | |
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In office 25 May 1945 – 26 July 1945 |
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| Monarch | George VI |
| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | A. V. Alexander |
| Succeeded by | A. V. Alexander |
| Minister of Information | |
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In office 20 July 1941 – 25 May 1945 |
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| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | Duff Cooper |
| Succeeded by | Geoffrey Lloyd |
| Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister | |
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In office 1940–1941 |
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| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | Lord Dunglass |
| Succeeded by | George Harvie-Watt |
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15 February 1901 Templemore, County Tipperary, Ireland |
| Died | 8 August 1958 (aged 57) |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Political party | Conservative |
Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken, PC (15 February 1901 – 8 August 1958), was an Irish-born businessman and a minister in the British Conservative cabinet. He is best remembered for opposing the Bank of England's co-operation with Adolf Hitler, and for subsequently supporting Winston Churchill's prosecution of World War II against Hitler. He was also the founder of the modern version of the Financial Times. He served as Minister of Information from 1941 to 1945.
Brendan Rendall Bracken was born in Templemore, County Tipperary, Ireland, the second son and third of the four children of Joseph Kevin Bracken (1852–1904), builder and monumental mason, and his second wife, Hannah Agnes Ryan (1872–1928). His father had belonged to the IRB and was one of the seven founders of the GAA.
Widowed in 1904, by 1908 Hannah Bracken had moved her family (including two stepdaughters) to Dublin, where Brendan attended St Patrick's National School, Drumcondra, until 1910, when he was transferred to the O'Connell School, run by the Irish Christian Brothers. Distressed by his misbehaviour, his mother sent him in 1915 to Mungret College, a Jesuit boarding school in County Limerick, but he bolted in 1915 and ran up hotel bills. She then sent him to Australia to live with a cousin who was a priest in Echuca, Victoria. The young man led a nomadic existence in Australia, moving often but reading avidly and acquiring a self-education.
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