- Frank Brooke
Francis Theophilius Brooke J.P., DL (
1851 -30 July 1920 ) was anAnglo-Irish Director ofGreat Southern and Eastern Railways and a member of the Earl of Ypres' Advisory Council [ [http://webpages.dcu.ie/~foxs/irhist/july_1920.htm A chronology of the Troubles] ] . He was killed, aged 69, by theIrish Republican Army .Family
Brooke was a cousin of
Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough the futurePrime Minister of Northern Ireland [ [http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FHIS%2FHIS42_03%2FS0018246X9900852Xa.pdf&code=e5b82eeab2ba3e327005a5003ed21b36 Cambridge Journals] ] . Brooke, a grandson of Hans Hastings, 12th Earl of Huntingdon, on his mother's side, and ofSir Henry Brooke, 1st Baronet , on his father's [ [http://www.thepeerage.com/p18129.htm#i181290 thepeerage.com] ] , was married twice; firstly to Alice Moore, a daughter of the Dean of Clogher, (d. 1909) and secondly to Agnes Hibbert [ [http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:elnpHCHbzI8J:www.thepeerage.com/p5724.htm+%22Frank+brooke%22,+IRA,+1920&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=uk thepeerage.com] ] . By his first wife he had three children; Alice Gertrude (later "Doyne"), Lt. Col. George Frank Brooke and Henry Hastings Brooke [ [http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:elnpHCHbzI8J:www.thepeerage.com/p5724.htm+%22Frank+brooke%22,+IRA,+1920&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=uk thepeerage.com] ] .Career
Brooke was also
Deputy Lieutenant ofCounty Wicklow andCounty Fermanagh , aLieutenant in theRoyal Navy , aJustice of the Peace forCounty Fermanagh and aPrivy Councillor of Ireland (1918), thus he was styled "The Rt. Hon. Francis Brooke" [ [http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:elnpHCHbzI8J:www.thepeerage.com/p5724.htm+%22Frank+brooke%22,+IRA,+1920&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=uk thepeerage.com] ] .In July 1912 he had attended the house party at
Wentworth Woodhouse hosted for George V's stay there. [Bailey, C (2007). "Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty", p130. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-670-91542-2] .Death
He was killed at his offices, in
Dublin , byIrish Republican Army membersPaddy Daly and Jim Slattery.References
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