Mr. St. John Brodrick William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton, KP, PC (14 December 1856 – 13 February 1942), co
William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton, KP, PC (14 December 1856 – 13 February 1942), commonly known as St John Brodrick, was an English Conservative Party statesman. He came of a Surrey family who in the 17th century, in the persons of Sir St John Brodrick and Sir Thomas Brodrick, obtained grants of land in the south of Ireland. Sir St John Brodrick settled at Midleton, between Cork and Youghal in 1641; and his son Alan Brodrick (1660–1728), Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was created Baron Brodrick in 1715 and Viscount Midleton in 1717 in the Irish peerage. In 1796 the title of Baron Brodrick in the Peerage of Great Britain was created. The English family seat at Peper Harrow, near Godalming, Surrey, was designed by Sir William Chambers. William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton 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 Protection Act. His brother, the Honourable G. C. Brodrick, was for many years warden of Merton College, Oxford. After being at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, and serving as president of the Oxford Union, Brodrick entered Parliament as Conservative member for West Surrey in 1880.[1] In 1883 he was appointed to a Royal Commission examining the condition of Irish prisons.[2] From 1886 to 1892 he was Financial Secretary to the War Office; Under-Secretary of State for War, 1895–1898; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1898–1900; Secretary of State for War, 1900–1903;[3][4][5] and Secretary of State for India, 1903–1905. In 1885, he moved to the Guildford seat,[6][7][8][9] but lost it at the general election of January 1906. In March 1907 he was made an alderman of the London County Council. From he was regarded as the nominal leader of the Irish Unionist alliance (the umbrella body for Southern Irish Unionists,
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