page_title: George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton
section_title: Origins
hierarchical_section_title: George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton / Origins
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton, aged twelve; three-quarter length, seated to left at a table, holding an open book, looking down to front, wearing open jacket, shirt, and black bow-tie; tree at right, landscape in background; after Angelica Kauffman. Lithograph on chine collé
context_page_description: George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1796, when he was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as Baron Brodrick.
context_section_description: Brodrick was the eldest son and heir of George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton (died 22 August 1765) and Albinia, the daughter of the Hon Thomas Townshend. The Brodricks were an English family that had settled in Ireland in the mid-17th century. He was educated at Eton College from 1766 to 1771, and was admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge in 1772. 
  He succeeded his father in 1765, inheriting his Irish Viscouncy and the Peper Harow estate in Surrey with its new but incomplete mansion, which he completed once he came of age. It is now a Grade I listed building.
caption: Portrait, aged 12
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