Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough
Alan Henry Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough, (* June 30, 1952 ) is an Irish peer, soldier and landowner. He is one of 92 Hereditary Peers that remain for life in the House of Lords.
Biography
Brooke, son of John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough ( 1922-1987 ) and Rosemary Hilda Chichester ( 1926-2007 ), attended the Harrow School in London and the Millfield School in Somerset, and the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester.
In 1971 he joined the British Army, where he. Among 17./21 Lancers was used. In 1977 he was transferred to the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR), the Royal Irish Regiment in 1992. From 1980 to 1983 Brooke Co - Commander was the 4th Battalion of the UDR. From 1988 to 1993 he was Major - Colonel. He was promoted to Lieutenant - Colonel of the Royal Irish Regiment in 1993 and was Honorary Colonel of 1997 4/5 Battalion of the Royal Irish Rangers and remained so until 2008. He is president of Co. Fermanagh Unionist Association and was from 2001 to 2006 independent member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board. The National Employer Advisory Board ( NEAB ) he is a member since 2005.
From 1992 to 2001 he was a non-executive director of the Green Park Healthcare Trust. Since 1995 he has been President of the Army Benevolent Fund Northern Ireland. From 1996 to 2001 he was Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Basel International ( Jersey), since 2000 he is a Non-Executive Director.
Brooke is a Non-executive Director of the Basel Trust Corporation (Channel Islands) Ltd, which offers financial services. He is a member of the Trusteeship Council ( trustee ) of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. In 1987 he became Deputy Lieutenant of Co. Fermanagh. In 1995 he was High Sheriff there.
Membership in the House of Lords
Brooke inherited in 1987 the title of Viscount Brookeborough by his father, and then the associated seat in the House of Lords. On February 3, 1988, he stopped there his inaugural speech. As political interests he calls on the official website of the House of Lords, Northern Ireland, agriculture, tourism, defense policy and health policy. As states are of particular interest, he cites the states of Europe and especially the UK.
From 1988 to 1997 he was a member of the EEC Agricultural Sub - Committee. From 1998 to 2002, Brooke member of the Select Committee on European Communities. During the same period he also belonged to the Sub-Committee, British Energy Industry and Transport. Since 2007 he is a member of the Sub-Committee D.
Since 1997 he is Lord -in- Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II, although he lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords by the House of Lords Act 1999, he remained there as one of the selected peers of the Cross Bencher. At a meeting of days he is more attend irregularly.
Work in the public
Brooke Elizabeth II represented as a Lord- in - Waiting, instead of Charles Mountbatten -Windsor, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall at the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at their official state visit to the 24. May 2011.
Family and private life
Brookeborough married on April 12, 1980 Janet Elizabeth Cooke (daughter of JP Cooke, from Doagh ), which thus was given the courtesy title Viscountess Brookeborough. You operate the Colebrooke Park in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
Since he has no children, the presumed heir apparent is his brother Christopher Arthur Brooke.
Significant family members were of the Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alan Brooke, and the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough.