page_title: St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton / Family
caption_attribution_description: Statesmen No. 738: Caricature of St John Brodrick (1856-1942), British Secretary of State for War. Caption read "War". Русский: Вильям Сент Джон Фромантль Бродрик (1856—1942) — глава военного ведомства Великобритании.
context_page_description: William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton, KP, PC, DL, styled as St John Brodrick until 1907 and as Viscount Midleton between 1907 and 1920, was a British Conservative and Irish Unionist Alliance politician.
context_section_description: He married, first in 1880, Lady Hilda (died 1901), daughter of The 10th Earl of Wemyss, by whom he had five children; and secondly in 1903, Madeleine Stanley, daughter of The Baroness St Helier by her first husband. His children by the first wife were:
  Lady Muriel Brodrick (1881–1966), who married in 1901 Dudley Marjoribanks, 3rd Baron Tweedmouth (1874–1935) and left two daughters.
  Lady Sybil Brodrick (1885–1935), was a Maid of honour to Queen Mary 1911–1912, and married 1912 the diplomat Sir Ronald William Graham (1870–1949), no children.
  George Brodrick, 2nd Earl of Midleton (1888–1979)
  Lady Aileen Hilda Brodrick (1890–1970), who married in 1913 mountaineer and author Charles Francis Meade (1881–1975), by whom she had three daughters and a son.
  Lady Moyra Brodrick (1897–1982), who married in 1922 General Sir Henry Charles Loyd (1891–1973), by who she had a son and a daughter.
  His grandson Sir Julian St. John Loyd (by Lady Moyra) became land agent to Queen Elizabeth II at Sandringham. His daughter, Alexandra (Mrs Duncan Byatt), was a Lady-in-Waiting to Diana, Princess of Wales.
  His sister, Hon. Marian Cecilia married Sir James Whitehead, son of the inventor Robert Whitehead. Sir James Whitehead was to become the British Ambassador to Austria, and his niece Agathe was the first wife of Georg von Trapp; the story of their children and his second wife, Maria von Trapp, was the basis of the musical The Sound of Music.
  Another, Hon. Albinia, became an early supporter of Sinn Féin and became well known in Ireland under the name Gobnait Ní Bhruadair.
  Another, Hon. Edith later Mrs. Lyttleton Gell was a published author of at least 24 works such as The Cloud of Witness: A daily sequence of great thoughts from many minds and autobiography, Under Three Reigns: 1860-1944.
caption: "War". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1901.
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