Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Born

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Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, born

Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough — unionist politician and Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1943 to 1963 — is born in Colebrooke, County Fermanagh on June 9, 1888. He was the first and only Northern Ireland Prime Minister to be elevated to the peerage.