Frank Brooke

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For other persons named Francis Brooke, see Francis Brooke (disambiguation).

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 [1]. He was killed, aged 69, by the Irish Republican Army.

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[edit] Family

Brooke was a cousin of Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough the future Prime Minister of Northern Ireland [2]. Brooke, a grandson of Hans Hastings, 12th Earl of Huntingdon, on his mother's side, and of Sir Henry Brooke, 1st Baronet, on his father's[3], was married twice; firstly to Alice Moore, a daughter of the Dean of Clogher, (d. 1909) and secondly to Agnes Hibbert [4]. By his first wife he had three children; Alice Gertrude (later Doyne), Lt. Col. George Frank Brooke and Henry Hastings Brooke[5].

[edit] 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[6].

In July 1912 he had attended the house party at Wentworth Woodhouse hosted for George V's stay there. [7].

[edit] Death

He was killed at his offices, in Dublin, by Irish Republican Army members Paddy Daly and Jim Slattery.

[edit] References

  1. ^ A chronology of the Troubles
  2. ^ Cambridge Journals
  3. ^ thepeerage.com
  4. ^ thepeerage.com
  5. ^ thepeerage.com
  6. ^ thepeerage.com
  7. ^ Bailey, C (2007). Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty, p130. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-670-91542-2