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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO

BROOKE, Sir Basil Stanlake, Bart. (Unit. Kgd., 1822), C.V.O. (1921), M.C., Capt. 10th Hussars; served in European War, 1914-17; Member of Senate of Northern Ireland, 1921; eldest son of Sir Douglas, 4th Bart., and Gertrude, dau. of the late Stanlake Ricketts Batson, Esq.; b. 9th June, 1888; s. his father, 27th Nov. 1907; m. 1919, Cynthia, dau. of late Capt. Charles Warden Sergison, and has issue a son. Res.: Colebrook, Brookeborough, Co. Fermanagh.

BROOKE, Capt. Francis Hugh, Capt. and Adjutant, South Irish Horse; late Lieut., K.R.R. Corps; served in European War, 1914-18; has 1914 Star; eldest surviving son of Sir George Frederick, 1st Bart.; b. 10th Nov., 1882; m. 5th May., 1915, Mabel, youngest dau. of the late Sir John Arnott, Bart., and of Lady Fitzgerald-Arnott, of Castlemartyr, Co. Cork. Res.: Pickering Forest, Celbridge, Co. Kildare.

BROOKE, Sir George Frederick, Bart. (Unit. Kgd., 1903), D.L., City of Dublin; J.P., Co. Wexford (High Sheriff, 1882); J.P., Co. Dublin (High Sheriff, 1898); a Director of the Bank of Ireland; Deputy-Governor, 1902 to 1904; Governor, 1904-190(5; eldest son of the late Francis H. Brooke, Esq., of Summerton, Co. Dublin, and his wife, Hon. Henrietta, dau. of 3rd Viscount Monck: b. 1st, 6th Aug., 1849; m. 1st, 6th April, 1875, Anna Maria (d.1877), dau. of Geoffrey J. Shakerley, Esq.; 2nd, 21st April, 1881, Emily A. (d. 1910), dau. of Augustine H. Barton. Res.: Pickering Forest, Celbridge, Co. Kildare. Clubs: Carlton, S.W.: Kildare Street, and Sackville Street, Dublin.

BROWN, Stephen James, M.A. (T.C.D.), J.P. for Co. Kildare. Educ.: Clongowes and T.C.D.; admitted a Solicitor, 1875; Chairman of Kildare C.C, 1899-1911; appointed on the Commission of Enquiry into the Dept. of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, Ireland, 1906, and on Commission of Enquiry into Arterial Drainage, Ireland, 1905; Crown Solicitor, Co. Kildare, since 1915; b. 1853; son of Stephen Brown, J.P., of Dundalk: m. 1st, 1880, Catherine, dau. of John Ross, of Belfast; 2nd. 1897, Mary, dau. of Richard Ball, of Moorside, Co. Meath. Res.: Ard Caein, Naas, Co. Kildare.

BROWN, Right Hon. Thos. Watters, P.C. (1921); M.P. for North Down from 1918; Barrister, King's Inns, 1907; K.C. 1918: Barrister, Gray's Inn, 1919; Solicitor-General for Ireland, 1921; Attorney-General for Ireland, 1921 to 1922; a Justice of the High Court of Justice for Northern Ireland from 1922; son of late James A. Brown of Newtownards; b. 1879; m. 1913, Mary, dau. of late W. J. Hadden, of Cookstown. Res.: Kintore, Donaghadee, Co Down.

BROWN, His Honor Judge William Herbert, K.C, County Court Judge and Chairman of Quarter Sessions for the Cog. of Cavan and Leitrim; J.P., Co. Londonderry; B.Sc. (Lond.); M.A., LL.B. (R.U.I.). Educ.: Coleraine Academical Institution, Queen's Colleges, Galway and Belfast; second son of the late Rev. Nathaniel M. Brown, D.D., LL.D., of Limavady, Co. Londonderry; First Classical Exhibitioner and second Science scholar; first Law scholar; senior Natural Philosophy scholar; Peel Exhibitioner (Q.U.I.); first Honorman (R.U.I.); King's Inns Exhibitioner, 1886. Called to the Bar, 1887; Crown Prosecutor, Co. Louth, 1896-1903; Co. Down, 1903-1914; Counsel to Post Office, N.E. Circuit, 1912-1914. Additional Revising Barrister, Borough of Cork, 1896-1905; County of Dublin, 1912-1913; Borough of Dublin, 1909-1911. K.C, 1911. Appointed Judge and Chairman of Quarter Sessions, Cavan and Leitrim, 1914. Contested N. Derry (L.), General Election, 1910. Res.: Glenfern, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.

BROWNE, Lt.-Col. Andrew Duncan Montague, D.S.O. (1917); served in S. African War, 1899-1902; D.A.A. and Q.M.G., 1914-16; A.A. and Q.M.G., 1916; Major (Brevet Lt.-Col., 1918), King's Own Lane. Regt. from 1915: son of late Major-Gen. Andrew Smythe Montague Browne, D.L., J.P., of St. John's Point, Co. Down: b. 1878: m. 1915, Violet E. Garrard. Res.: St. John's Point, Killough, Co. Down.

BROWNE, Cyril Edward, M.A. (Cantab). Educ.: Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A., 1899: Civil Service Staff of Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, 1898-1900; Auditor Local Government Board for Ireland, 1902; Inspector of Audits, 1922; b. 15th July, 1873; 3rd son of the Lord Richard Howe Browne. Recns.: angling, shooting, motoring. Res.: Rosslyn, Bray, Co. Wicklow. Club: Kildare Street, Dublin.

BROWNE, Major Dominick Sidney, Educ.: Eton and Oxford; D.L., J.P., Co. Mayo (High Sheriff, 1896); late Capt. and Hon. Major 3rd Batt. Royal Scots Fusiliers; served in S. African War, 1900-02, 1st with 2nd/1st Scots Fusiliers, and then with 12th (Scottish) M.T.; in Great War, 1914-18, as District Purchaser Remounts 8th Batt. Royal Scots Fusiliers, and Asst. Embarkation Staff Officer; son of late Dominick Andrew Browne, D.L., J.P., of Breaghwv, Co. Mayo; b. 1st March, 1866; m. 1895, Naomi, eldest dau. of Hon. R. R. Dobell, P.C, M.P., of Beauvoir Manor, Quebec, and has issue three daus. and a son, Dominick Andrew Sidney, b. 29th Feb., 1904. Recns.: shooting and fishing. Res.: Breaghwy, Castlebar, Co. Mayo. Kildare Street Club, Dublin: Carlton, Orleans and Royal Automobile Club, London.