Cynthia Brooke, Viscountess Brookeborough
Cynthia Mary Brooke, Viscountess Brookeborough, the 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1943 to 1963.[1]
Cynthia was born in
Second World War
. Only one son of the three survived his parents. They were:
- Lieutenant Basil Julian David Brooke (18 April 1920 – March 1943 (Killed in action)
- John Warden Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough(9 November 1922 – 5 March 1987)
- Lieutenant Henry Alan Brooke (29 October 1923 - April 1945) (Killed in action)
During the Second World War, she was Senior Commandant of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Lady Brooke was styled as Viscountess Brookeborough from 1 July 1952, when her husband was created
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), for public services in Northern Ireland.[2]
Death
Lady Brookeborough died on 2 March 1970, aged 72. After her death, Lord Brookeborough married Sarah Eileen Bell, daughter of Henry Healey, of Belfast, and widow of Cecil Armstrong Calvert, FRCS, former director of neurosurgery at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.[3]
References
- ^ "Viscountess Brookeborough". The Times. 4 March 1970. p. 12.
- ^ "No. 41727". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 June 1959. p. 3706.
- ^ "Obituary: Viscount Brookeborough". The Times. 20 August 1973. p. 15.