Education
Lord Brookeborough was educated at Harrow School, Millfield, and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
politician Member of the House of Lords
Lord Brookeborough was educated at Harrow School, Millfield, and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
Born 30 June 1952), is a Northern Irish peer and landowner. He is one of the 92 hereditary peers who remain, for life, in the House of Lords, and is the current Lord Lieutenant of Fermanagh. He joined the British Army in 1971, being commissioned into the 17th/21st Lancers.
In 1977 he transferred to the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), which was to become the Royal Irish Regiment in 1992.
He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1993, and became Honorary Colonel of the 4th/5th Battalion, Royal Irish Rangers, in 1997. Brooke succeeded his father as The 3rd Viscount Brookeborough in 1987.
Although he lost his automatic right to a seat in the House of Lords, with all other hereditary peers after the passage of the House of Lords Acting 1999, Lord Brookeborough returned to the House as an elected crossbench peer in 1999. He has been a Lord-in-Waiting to The Queen since 1997.
The Lord Brookeborough has represented The Queen as Her Majesty"s Lord-in-Waiting, instead of The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, on the arrival of the United States. President, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama to the United Kingdom on their official state visit, on 24 May 2011.
Brooke was appointed a Knight of the Order of Street John by The Queen on 26 June 2014. The current Lord Brookeborough has no children. Christopher Brooke (who has four sons), is his heir presumptive.
He is President of the Company Fermanagh Unionist Association and was appointed as an independent member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board in 2001. Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883-1963) was also a member of the same family.