Sir Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet

Sir Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet PC (Ire) (1726 – 7 March 1785)[1] was an Irish baronet and politician.

He was the son of Henry Brooke and his wife Lettice Burton, daughter of Benjamin Burton.[2] Brooke was educated at Trinity College Dublin[3] and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1746.[4] He was appointed High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1752,[5] and became later Governor of County Fermanagh.[4] In 1761, Brooke was elected to the Irish House of Commons for County Fermanagh, a seat he held until 1783.[6] Subsequently, he represented Maryborough until his death in 1785.[6] On 3 January 1764, he was created a baronet, of Colebrooke, in the County of Fermanagh[7] and on 15 May 1770, he was invested to the Privy Council of Ireland.[8]

Marriages and children

On 6 August 1751, he married firstly Margaret Fortescue, daughter of Thomas Fortescue and Elizabeth Hamilton.[9] She died in 1756, and Brooke married secondly Elizabeth Foorde at The Palace in Clogher on 21 September 1775.[4] By his first wife, he had two daughters and two sons.[4] Brooke died on Sackville Street (Dublin).[4] His sons having predeceased him, the baronetcy became extinct.[1] His eldest daughter, Selina Elizabeth Brooke, married Thomas Vesey, 1st Viscount de Vesci. His younger daughter, Letitia Charlotte, married Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet: they were the parents of Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, and ancestors of the leading Irish statesman Charles Stewart Parnell.

References

  1. ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  2. ^ Lodge, John (1789). Mervyn Archdall (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. Vol. VI. Dublin: James Moore. p. 36.
  3. ^ "Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860 George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p100: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. ^ a b c d e "ThePeerage - Sir Arthur Brooke, 1st and last Bt". Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  5. ^ "Public Record Office of Northern Ireland - Brookeborough Papers" (PDF). Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  6. ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  7. ^ "No. 10365". The London Gazette. 12 November 1763. p. 2.
  8. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Privy Council of Ireland". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
  9. ^ Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. II (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 1280.
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Member of Parliament for County Fermanagh
1761–1783
With: Mervyn Archdall 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Maryborough
1783–1785
With: Charles Henry Coote 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of Ireland
New creation Baronet
(of Colebrooke)
1770–1785 		Extinct