George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton (3 October 1730 – 22 August 1765) was a British nobleman.

Origins

Brodrick was the first and only surviving son of

Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton (31 January 1702 – 8 June 1747) was a British peer and significant cricket patron who was jointly responsible for creating the sport's earliest known written rules. Cricket patronage Midleton succeeded his ...

and Mary Capell, the second daughter of

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. The Brodricks were an English family that had settled in Ireland in the mid-17th century. Brodrick's grandfather, the first Viscount, had risen to become

Lord Chancellor of Ireland The Lord High Chancellor of Ireland (commonly known as Lord Chancellor of Ireland) was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. From 1721 to 1801, it was also the highest political office of ...

. King George stood sponsor at Brodrick's christening.G.E.Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage'', Volume VIII (1932), at page 703

Life and career

Brodrick was educated at

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between 1742 and 1745. He was a Whig and sat in the

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as Member of Parliament for Ashburton between 1754 and 1761, and for Shoreham between 1761 and 1765. In 1762 he commissioned

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to build a mansion on his estate at

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in Surrey. He died before it was complete and his son completed it once he came of age. The house is now a

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. He died of an abscess in the

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on 22 August 1765 and was buried six days later at

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Family

Brodrick married on 1 May 1752 Albinia, the daughter of the Hon Thomas Townshend by Albinia (daughter of John Selwyn of Matson, Gloucestershire). They had six sons: * George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton (1 November 1754 – 12 August 1836). *Thomas Brodrick (17 April 1756 – 13 January 1795), Under-Secretary at the Home Department. *Hon. Henry Brodrick (12 December 1758 – 16 June 1785), Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel in the

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. *

Charles Brodrick Charles Brodrick (3 May 1761 – 6 May 1822) was a reforming Irish clergyman and Archbishop of Cashel in the Church of Ireland. Origins and education Brodrick was the third son of the 3rd Viscount Midleton and Albinia Townshend, sister of Vis ...

(3 May 1761 – 6 May 1822),

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. * William Brodrick (14 February 1763 – 29 April 1819), MP for Whitchurch * John Brodrick (3 November 1765 – 9 October 1842), a general and Governor of Martinique.Burke's ''Peerage'', ''Midleton of Midleton''

References

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