Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscoont Brookborough

Alan Henry Brooke, 3rd Viscoont Brookeborough, Bt (born Juin 30, 1952), is a Northren Erse peer an landawner. He is ane o the 92 hereditary peers who remain, for life, in the Hoose o Lords.

Early life an career
Brooke wis educatit at Harrow School, Millfield, an the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. 

He joined the Breetish Airmy in 1971, being commissioned intae the 17t/21st Lancers. In 1977 he transferred tae the Ulster Defence Regiment, which wis tae become the Ryal Erse Regiment in 1992. He wis promotit tae Lieutenant-Colonel in 1993, an became Honorary Colonel o the 4t/5t Battalion, Ryal Erse Rangers in 1997. 

Personal life
Lord Brookeborough married Janet Elizabeth Cooke (dochter o JP Cooke, o Doagh), nou Viscoontess Brookeborough, in 1980. They farm the  Colebrooke Park, Brookeborough, Coonty Fermanagh, in Northren Ireland.Brookeborough Bomb Search Continues (4ni.co.uk)

Peerage
Brooke succeedit his faither as the 3rd Viscoont Brookeborough in 1987. Although he lost his automatic richt tae a seat in the Hoose o Lords, wi aw ither hereditary peers efter the passage o the Hoose o Lords Act 1999, Lord Brookeborough returned tae the Hoose as an  electit crossbench peer in 1999. 

He haes been a Lord-in-Waitin tae The Queen since 1997. He is Preses o the Co. Fermanagh Unionist Association an wis appointit as an independent member o the NI Policing Board in 2001.Brookeborough pledges to represent Fermanagh on new Police Board, The Impartial Reporter, 27/9/2001 

Faimily
The soldier, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscoont Alanbrooke, wis a member o the same faimily.

References

See an aw
 Leet o Northren Ireland Members o the Hoose o Lords

Category:1952 births
Category:Livin fowk
Category:Viscoonts in the Peerage o the Unitit Kinrick
Category:Alumni o the Royal Agricultural College
Category:Hie Sheriffs o Coonty Fermanagh
Category:Ulster Defence Regiment officers
Category:17t/21st Lancers officers
Category:Auld Harrovians
Category:Auld Millfieldians
Category:Fowk frae Coonty Fermanagh