Alan Henry Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough

Alan Henry Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough, Bt, DL (born 30 June 1952), is a Northern Irish peer and landowner. He is one of the 92 hereditary peers who remain, for life, in the House of Lords. Brooke was educated at Harrow School, Millfield, and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. He joined the British Army in 1971, being commissioned into the 17th/21st Lancers. In 1977 he transferred to the Ulster Defence Regiment, which was to become the Royal Irish Regiment in 1992. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1993, and became Honorary Colonel of the 4th/5th Battalion, Royal Irish Rangers in 1997. Lord Brookeborough married Janet Elizabeth Cooke (daughter of JP Cooke, of Doagh), now Viscountess Brookeborough, in 1980. They...