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Viscount Midleton, ofMidleton in theCounty of Cork, is a title in thePeerage of Ireland. It was created in 1717 forAlan Brodrick, 1st Baron Brodrick, theLord Chancellor of Ireland and former Speaker of theIrish House of Commons. He was createdBaron Brodrick, of Midleton in the County of Cork, in 1715 in the same peerage. His grandson, the third Viscount, co-representedAshburton thenNew Shoreham in theBritish House of Commons. His son, the fourth Viscount, sat similarly forWhitchurch for 22 years. In 1796 he was createdBaron Brodrick, ofPeper Harow in theCounty of Surrey, in thePeerage of Great Britain, with a special remainder to the heirs male of his father, the third Viscount. On the death of his son, the fifth Viscount, this line of the family failed.
He was succeeded by his first cousin, the sixth Viscount. He was the eldest son ofCharles Brodrick,Archbishop of Cashel, fourth son of the third Viscount. His nephew, the eighth Viscount, briefly representedMid Surrey in the House of Commons as aConservative and served asLord Lieutenant of Surrey between 1896 and 1905. His son, the ninth Viscount, was a prominent Conservative politician and government minister (1880-1906) and from 1910 was the nominal leader of theIrish Unionist Alliance (IUA) in Southern Ireland. Successful lobbying by him and associated Southern Unionists was instrumental in ensuring their representation in theSeanad of the Irish Free State however he failed to win some safeguards for fellow Southern Unionists in the 1921Anglo-Irish Treaty. In 1920 he was createdEarl of Midleton andViscount Dunsford, of Dunsford in the County of Surrey, in thePeerage of the United Kingdom which titles became extinct on the death of his son, the second Earl, in 1979.
The Irish titles and barony of Brodrick passed on to his second cousin, the eleventh Viscount. He was the grandson of Reverend the Hon. Alan Brodrick, youngest son of the seventh Viscount. As of 2010[update] the titles are held by the eleventh Viscount's son, the twelfth Viscount, who succeeded in 1988.
The ancestral seat of the Brodrick family wasPeper Harow, its final form commissioned by the third Viscount, nearGodalming,Surrey. The house was sold in 1944 by the second Earl of Midleton. The family's original seat was Ballyannan Castle nearMidleton in County Cork, which they occupied untilc. 1728, but continued to own; it was becoming a ruin by 1837.
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Theheir apparent is the present holder's son the Hon. Ashley Rupert Brodrick (born 1980).
