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Irish baronet and politician

Sir Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet PC (Ire) (1726 – 7 March 1785) was an Irish baronet and politician.

He was the son of Henry Brooke and his wife Lettice Burton, daughter of Benjamin Burton. Brooke was educated at Trinity College Dublin and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1746. He was appointed High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1752, and became later Governor of County Fermanagh. In 1761, Brooke was elected to the Irish House of Commons for County Fermanagh, a seat he held until 1783. Subsequently, he represented Maryborough until his death in 1785. On 3 January 1764, he was created a baronet, of Colebrooke, in the County of Fermanagh and on 15 May 1770, he was invested to the Privy Council of Ireland.

Marriages and children

On 6 August 1751, he married firstly Margaret Fortescue, daughter of Thomas Fortescue and Elizabeth Hamilton. She died in 1756, and Brooke married secondly Elizabeth Foorde at The Palace in Clogher on 21 September 1775. By his first wife, he had two daughters and two sons. Brooke died on Sackville Street (Dublin). His sons having predeceased him, the baronetcy became extinct. His eldest daughter, Selina Elizabeth Brooke, married Thomas Vesey, 1st Viscount de Vesci. His younger daughter, Letitia Charlotte, married Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet: they were the parents of Henry Parnell, 1st Baron Congleton, and ancestors of the leading Irish statesman Charles Stewart Parnell.

References

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Parliament of Ireland
Preceded byNicholas Archdall
Henry Brooke 		Member of Parliament for County Fermanagh
1761–1783
With: Mervyn Archdall 		Succeeded byMervyn Archdall
Arthur Cole-Hamilton
Preceded bySir John Parnell
Charles Henry Coote 		Member of Parliament for Maryborough
1783–1785
With: Charles Henry Coote 		Succeeded byFrederick Trench
Charles Henry Coote
Baronetage of Ireland
New creation Baronet
(of Colebrooke)
1770–1785 		Extinct
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