Social Victorians/People/Midleton

Also Known As

• Family name: Brodrick, sometimes misspelled as Broderick
• Earl of Midleton
  • William St. John Freemantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton (2 February 1920 – 13 February 1942)
• Viscount Midleton of Midleton, Irish peerage
  • William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton of Midleton (29 August 1870 – 18 April 1907)
  • William St. John Freemantle Brodrick, 9th Viscount Midleton of Midleton (18 April 1907 – 13 February 1942)

Demographics

• Nationality: British

Residences

• Peper Harrow, ancestral but not original seat
• 34 Portland Place, London
• Midleton House, Ireland

Family

• William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton of Midleton (6 January 1830 – 18 April 1907)
• Hon. Augusta Mary Fremantle ( – 1 June 1903)
  1. Hon. Edith Mary Brodrick ( – 17 April 1944)
  2. Hon. Augusta Louisa Brodrick (c. 1854 – 3 November 1934)
  3. Hon. Evelyn Harriet Brodrick (21 November 1855 – 30 January 1856)
  4. St. John (William St. John Freemantle) Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton (14 December 1856 – 13 February 1942)
  5. Hon. Helen Anna Brodrick (c. 1857 – 18 September 1937)
  6. Hon. Albina Lucy Brodrick (c. 1862 – 16 January 1955)
  7. Hon. Laurence Alan Brodrick (24 January 1864 – 30 March 1915)
  8. Colonel Hon. Arthur Grenville Brodrick (2 June 1868 – 18 September 1934)
  9. Hon. Marian Cecilia Brodrick (1869 – 28 April 1932)

• Hon. Marian Cecilia Brodrick ( – 28 April 1932)
• Sir Beethom (James Beethom) Whitehead (1858 – 19 September 1928)

1. Frances Edith Marian Whitehead ( – 1992) [not Marian Brodrick's child]
2. John William St. John Whitehead ()
3. George Robert Beethom Whitehead (1897 – )
4. Sir Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead (8 February 1905 – 23 September 1971)

• William St. John Freemantle Brodrick (14 December 1856 – 13 February 1942)
• Lady Hilda Charteris Brodrick (13 October 1854 – 1 August 1901)

1. Lady Muriel Brodrick (23 November 1881 – 7 September 1966)
2. Lady Sybil Brodrick (9 March 1885 – 3 April 1935)
3. George St. John Brodrick, 2nd Earl of Midleton (21 February 1888 – 2 November 1979)
4. Lady Aileen Hilda Brodrick (13 August 1890 – 30 September 1970)
5. Lady Moyra Brodrick (11 January 1897 – 1982)

• Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Stanley (2 July 1876 – 2 June 1966)

1. Major Hon. Francis Alan Stewart-Mackenzie of Seaforth (27 February 1910 – 11 September 1943)
2. Major Hon. Michael Victor Brodrick (25 February 1920 – 10 September 1943)

Relations

• Possibly Sir James Beethom Whitehead's brother was John Whitehead, who was the father of Agathe Whitehead, Georg Von Trapp's first wife and the mother of the first 7 Von Trapp children.

Organizations

St. John Brodrick

• Eton
• Balliol College, Oxford
• Member of Parliament, Conservative (1880–1906)

Timeline

1853 October 25, Hon. Augusta Mary Fremantle and William Brodrick married.

1880 December 4, St. John Brodrick and Lady Hilda Charteris married.

1884 January 3, Hon. Augusta Louisa Brodrick and Sir Cuthbert Edgar Peek, 2nd Bt., married.

1885 April 14, Hon. Helen Anna Brodrick and Rt. Rev. Archibald Ean Campbell, 12th of Skipness, married.

1889 July 25, Hon. Edith Mary Brodrick and Philip Lyttelton Gell married.

1896 April 15, Hon. Marian Cecilia Brodrick and Sir James Beethom Whitehead married.

1897 July 2, Mr. Brodrick and Lady H. Brodrick attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.

1903 January 5, St. John Brodrick and Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Stanley married.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

St. John Brodrick (at 368) and Lady Hilda Charteris Brodrick (at 362) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

St. John Broderick

St. John Brodrick (at 368, Mr. Brodrick) was dressed as Count Philip Kinsky, escorting Miss Stirling in the Austrian Court of Marie-Thérèse Quadrilles.

Lady Hilda Charteris Brodrick

Lady Hilda Charteris Brodrick (at 362, Lady H. Brodrick) was dressed as Princess Marie Künigunde of Saxony in the Austrian Court of Maria Theresa.

Questions and Notes

1. A Mr. Brodrick and a Lady H. Brodrick attended at least one of the social events hosted by the Prince and Princess of Wales in the years before the Duchess of Devonshire's ball. These seem likely to be St. John Brodrick and Lady Hilda Brodrick. Numerous examples make it clear that, because he was a Member of Parliament, he was called Mr. Brodrick in the press.
2. The other Brodrick attending events was The Hon. Miss Brodrick with the Viscount and Viscountess Midleton.
3. For the Hon. Miss Brodrick, who attended an event with the Viscount and Viscountess of Midleton, all the daughters of the 8th Viscount married except Hon. Evelyn Harriet Brodrick and Hon. Albina Lucy Brodrick, but, depending on the date of the event, it could have been one of the other daughters before she married.
4. William Brodrick, 8th Viscount was partially blind and deaf because his parents were first cousins, according to son William St. John Freemantle Brodrick.
5. Madeline Cecilia Carlyle Stanley also attended the ball, but she was not married to St. John Brodrick until 1903, so she is treated on the Stanley page.