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MIDLETON, See also:WILLIAM ST See also:JOHN See also:FREMANTLE BRODRICK, 9TH See also:VISCOUNT (1856— ) , See also:English politician, was the son of the 8th viscount (1830—1907). He came of a See also:Surrey See also:family who in the 17th See also:century, in the persons of See also:Sir St John Brodrick and Sir See also:Thomas Brodrick, obtained grants of See also:land in the See also:south of See also:Ireland. Sir St John Brodrick settled at Midleton, between See also:Cork and See also:Youghal in 1641; and his son Alan Brodrick (1660–1728), See also:speaker of the Irish See also:House of See also:Commons and See also:lord See also:chancellor of Ireland, was created See also:Baron Brodrick in 1715 and Viscount Midleton in 1717 in the Irish See also:peerage. In 1796 the See also:title of Baron Brodrick in the peerage of the See also:United See also:Kingdom was created. The English family seat at Peper Harow, near See also:Godalming, Surrey, was designed by Sir William See also:Chambers. The 8th viscount was a Conservative in politics, who for a few years had a seat in the House of Commons, and who was responsible in the House of Lords for carrying the Infants See also:Protection See also:Act. His See also:brother, the Hon. G. C. Brodrick, was for many years See also:warden of Merton See also:College, See also:Oxford. As Mr St John Brodrick, the 9th viscount had a distinguished career in the House of Commons. After being at See also:Eton and Balliol, Oxford, and serving as See also:president of the Oxford See also:Union, he entered See also:parliament as conservative member for one of the Surrey divisions in r880.

From 1886 to 1892 he was See also:

financial secretary to the See also:war See also:office; under secretary for war, 1895–1898; under secretary for See also:foreign affairs, 1898–1900; secretary of See also:state for war, 1900–1903; and secretary of state for See also:India, 1903–1905. He lost his seat for the See also:Guildford See also:division of Surrey at the See also:general See also:election of See also:January 1906. In See also:March 1907 he was made an See also:alderman of the See also:London See also:County See also:Council. He married, first in 188o, See also:Lady See also:Hilda (d. 19o1), daughter of the 9th See also:earl of See also:Wemyss, by whom he had a family; and secondly in 1903, Madeleine See also:Stanley, daughter of Lady St Helier by her first See also:husband.

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