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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Brian Faulkner, Brian Maginess, Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell, David Graham Shillington, Dawson Bates, Edmond Warnock, George Hanna (1906-1964), Harry Midgley, Herbert Kirk, Hugh Pollock, Ivan Neill, J. M. Andrews, Jack Andrews, James Chichester-Clark, James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, John Fawcett Gordon, John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, Maynard Sinclair, Milne Barbour, Minister of Home Affairs (Northern Ireland), Robert Porter (politician), Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Walter Topping, William Craig (politician), William Grant (Ulster Unionist politician), William James Morgan, William Long (Northern Ireland politician), William Lowry, William McCleery (politician). Excerpt: The Rt Hon. Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Bt, KG, CBE, MC, PC (9 June 1888 - 18 August 1973), was an Ulster Unionist politician who became the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in May 1943, holding office until March 1963. Lord Brookeborough (as Sir Basil Brooke, Bt, MP) had previously held several ministerial positions in the Government of Northern Ireland, and has been described as "perhaps the last Unionist leader to command respect, loyalty and affection across the social and political spectrum of the movement." He has also been described as one of the most hardline anti-Catholic leaders of the Ulster Unionist Party (the UUP). Basil Stanlake Brooke was born on 9 June 1888 at Colebrooke Park, his family's neo-Classical ancestral seat on (what was then) the several-thousand acre Colebrooke Estate, just outside Brookeborough, a village near Lisnaskea in County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was the eldest son of Sir Arthur Douglas Brooke, 4th Baronet, whom he succeeded as 5th Baronet on the latter's death in 1907. He was a nephew of Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff during World War II, who was only five years his senior. Lord Brookeborough's sister, Sheelah, married Sir Henry Mulholland; their son would succeed as Baron Dunleath. He was educated for five years at St. George's School in Pau, France, and then at Winchester College (1901-05). After graduating from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, the young Sir Basil Brooke, 5th Bt, was commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers on 26 September 1908 as a Second Lieutenant. He transferred to the 10th Hussars in 1911. He was awarded the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre with palm for his service during World War I. In 1920, having reached the rank of Captain, he left the British Army to farm the Colebrooke Estate, his family's country estate at Brookeborough in west Ulster. Brooke had a very long political career. When he resigned the Premiership of Nort
