Viscount Alanbrooke

Viscountcy of Alanbrooke
Arms: Or, a Cross engrailed per pale Gules and Sable, in the first quarter a Crescent Gules. Crest: A Brock statant proper. Supporters: On either side an Officer of the Royal Horse Guards in full dress proper, supporting with the exterior hand an Escutcheon Azure, charged with seven Barrulets wavy Argent, surmounted by a Salmon rising Gules.
Creation date	29 January 1946
Created by	King George VI
Peerage	Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder	Alan Brooke, 1st Baron Alanbrooke
Last holder	Victor Brooke, 3rd Viscount Alanbrooke
Remainder to	The 1st Viscount’s heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
Subsidiary titles	Baron Alanbrooke
Status	Extinct
Extinction date	10 January 2018
Motto	GLORIA FINIS (Glory to the end)

The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke.

Viscount Alanbrooke, of Brookeborough in the County of Fermanagh, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

It was created on 29 January 1946 for Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Baron Alanbrooke.^[1] He had already been created Baron Alanbrooke, of Brookeborough in the County of Fermanagh, on 18 September 1945, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.^[2] Brooke was the sixth son of Sir Victor Brooke, 3rd Baronet, and the uncle of Sir Basil Brooke, 5th Bt. (created Viscount Brookeborough in 1952), the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from May 1943 until March 1963.

Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke was succeeded by his elder son, Thomas, who was unmarried and had no children. The titles were then held by his half-brother, Alan Brooke's younger son, also named Alan (but popularly known as Victor). The 3rd Viscount died on 10 January 2018^[3] and the viscountcy became extinct on his death.

Viscounts Alanbrooke (1946)

• Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963)
• Thomas Brooke, 2nd Viscount Alanbrooke (1920–1972)
• Alan Victor Harold Brooke, 3rd Viscount Alanbrooke (1932–2018)

See also

• Viscount Brookeborough

Notes

1. "No. 37461". The London Gazette. 8 February 1946. p. 864.
2. "No. 37315". The London Gazette. 19 October 1945. p. 5133.
3. "ALANBROOKE - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements". announcements.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, ^{[page needed]}
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source] [better source needed]}