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{{Short description|Title in the peerage of Ireland}}
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[[File:Alan Brodrick.jpg|thumb|right|[[Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton]]]]

'''Viscount Midleton''', of [[Midleton]] in the [[County Cork|County of Cork]], is a title in the [[Peerage of Ireland]]. It was created in 1717 for [[Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton|Alan Brodrick, 1st Baron Brodrick]], the [[Lord Chancellor of Ireland]] and former Speaker of the [[Irish House of Commons]]. He was created '''Baron Brodrick''', of Midleton in the County of Cork, in 1715 in the same peerage. His grandson, the third Viscount, co-represented [[Ashburton (UK Parliament constituency)|Ashburton]] then [[New Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)|New Shoreham]] in the [[British House of Commons]]. His son, the fourth Viscount, sat similarly for [[Whitchurch (UK Parliament constituency)|Whitchurch]] for 22 years. In 1796 he was created '''Baron Brodrick''', of [[Peper Harow]] in the [[Surrey|County of Surrey]], in the [[Peerage of Great Britain]], with a special remainder to the heirs male of his father, the third Viscount. On the death of his son, the fifth Viscount, this line of the family failed. 

He was succeeded by his first cousin, the sixth Viscount. He was the eldest son of [[Charles Brodrick]], [[Archbishop of Cashel]], fourth son of the third Viscount. His nephew, the eighth Viscount, briefly represented [[Mid Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)|Mid Surrey]] in the House of Commons as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] and served as [[Lord Lieutenant of Surrey]] between 1896 and 1905. His son, the ninth Viscount, was a prominent Conservative politician and government minister (1880-1906) and from 1910 was the nominal leader of the [[Irish Unionist Alliance]] (IUA) in Southern Ireland.  Successful lobbying by him and associated Southern Unionists was instrumental in ensuring their representation in the [[Seanad Éireann|Seanad]] of the Irish Free State however he failed to win some safeguards for fellow Southern Unionists in the 1921 [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]]. In 1920 he was created '''Earl of Midleton''' and '''Viscount Dunsford''', of Dunsford in the County of Surrey, in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]] which titles became extinct on the death of his son, the second Earl, in 1979. 

The Irish titles and barony of Brodrick passed on to his second cousin, the eleventh Viscount. He was the grandson of Reverend the Hon. Alan Brodrick, youngest son of the seventh Viscount. {{As of|2010}} the titles are held by the eleventh Viscount's son, the twelfth Viscount, who succeeded in 1988.

The ancestral seat of the Brodrick family was [[Peper Harow]], its final form commissioned by the third Viscount, near [[Godalming]], [[Surrey]]. The house was sold in 1944 by the second Earl of Midleton. The family's original seat was Ballyannan Castle near [[Midleton]] in County Cork, which they occupied until {{circa|1728}}, but continued to own; it was becoming a ruin by 1837.

==Viscounts Midleton (1717)==
[[File:A funeral hatchment, depicting the coat of arms of Brodrick, Viscount Midleton (Anglo-Irish School).jpg|thumb|right|A funeral hatchment, depicting the coat of arms of Brodrick, Viscount Midleton. Anglo-Irish School, 19th century.]]
*[[Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton]] (1656–1728)
**[[St John Brodrick (died 1728)|Hon. St John Brodrick]] (1685–1728)
*[[Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton]] (1702–1747)
*[[George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton]] (1730–1765)
*[[George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton]] (1754–1836)
*[[George Brodrick, 5th Viscount Midleton|George Alan Brodrick, 5th Viscount Midleton]] (1806–1848)
*[[Charles Brodrick, 6th Viscount Midleton]] (1791–1863)
*[[William Brodrick, 7th Viscount Midleton|William John Brodrick, 7th Viscount Midleton]] (1798–1870)
*[[William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton]] (1830–1907)
*[[St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton|William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 9th Viscount Midleton]] (1856–1942) (created '''Earl of Midleton''' in 1920)

==Earls of Midleton (1920)==
*[[St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton|William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton]] (1856–1942)
*[[George Brodrick, 2nd Earl of Midleton|George St John Brodrick, 2nd Earl of Midleton]] (1888–1979)

==Viscounts Midleton (1717; reverted)==
*Trevor Lowther Brodrick, 11th Viscount Midleton (1903–1988)
*[[Alan Brodrick, 12th Viscount Midleton|Alan Henry Brodrick, 12th Viscount Midleton]] (born 1949)

The [[heir apparent]] is the present holder's son the Hon. Ashley Rupert Brodrick (born 1980)

==Notes==
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==References==
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}
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==External links==
*{{Hansard-contribs | mr-alan-brodrick | Alan Henry Brodrick, 12th Viscount Midleton }}

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