Victor Brooke

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Sir Victor Alexander Brooke, 3rd Baronet (5 January 1843 – 23 November 1891

Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, and grandfather of The 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. He shot and collected game trophies from around the world, took a special interest in deer and antelope species and published the first scientific description of the Persian fallow deer
as a new species in 1875.

Life

With tusk of an elephant shot in the Biligirirangans on 30 July 1863 along with Col. Douglas Hamilton.[2] It has been considered the largest elephant ever shot in India.[3][4]

Brooke was born at Colebrooke Estate,

big game hunting. His hunting trips took him into the Pyrenees, the middle-east, and India.[6] He was in touch with naturalists from around the world and was a Fellow of the Zoological Society. William Flower was first introduced to him in India by Edward Blyth in 1870 and wrote on Brooke's contributions to natural history. Brooke attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Dublin in 1878.[7]

Brooke described the Persian fallow deer in 1875 as a new species.[8] Brooke's proposed work on antelopes remained unfinished at his death. The plates by Joseph Smit and Joseph Wolf were later reused in Philip Sclater and Oldfield Thomas's The Book of Antelopes (1894–1900).[9][10][11]

He was a magistrate, deputy lieutenant and Sheriff of Fermanagh.

Personal life

Brooke married Alice Sophia, daughter of

Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke. Another son served in India as a military secretary to the Earl of Minto, Victor Reginald Brooke (1873-1914) and took a keen interest in hunting.[12] One grandson was The 1st Viscount Brookeborough, the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
.

Brooke died of pneumonia in Pau in November 1891, aged 48, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Arthur. Lady Brooke died in July 1920.

References

  1. ^ Stephen, Oscar Leslie (1894). Sir Victor Brooke, sportsman & naturalist: a memoir of his life and extracts from his letters and journals. London: John Murray. p. 25.
  2. JSTOR 1373614
    .
  3. ^ Sanderson, G.P. (1879). Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India (2 ed.). London: W.H. Allen & Co. pp. 237–239.
  4. ^ Hamilton, Douglas (1892). Records of sport in southern India, chiefly on the Annamullay, Nielgherry and Pulney mountains, also including notes on Singapore, Java and Labuan, from journals written between 1844 and 1870. R. H. Porter. pp. 158–160.
  5. JSTOR 25524775
    .
  6. S2CID 234121294
    .
  7. ^ Stephen, O.L. (1894):30.
  8. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
    : 261–266.
  9. ^ Brooke, Victor (1871). "On Speke's Antelope and the allied species of the genus Tragelaphus". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 482–489.
  10. ^ Stephen, O.L. (1894):30-32.
  11. S2CID 40791593
    .
  12. ISSN 1026-2881
    .

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Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baronet
(of Colebrooke)
1854–1891 		Succeeded by
Arthur Douglas Brooke
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