Brodrick (Midleton)

Viscount Midleton

Name	Description
Brodrick (Midleton)	Sir St John Brodrick of Wandsworth, Surrey, came to Ireland in the mid 17th century and was granted estates in counties Cork (over 6,000 acres in the baronies of Barrymore, Fermoy, Orrery and Imokilly in 1666) and Monaghan. His son Alan Brodrick was a prominent lawyer who held many high positions in Ireland, including Speaker of the House of the Commons, Attorney General and Lord Chancellor. He was created Viscount Midleton in 1717. The Viscounts Midleton were for the most part absentee landlords. They had an English property at Pepper Harrow, Surrey and married English wives. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Irish estate of Viscount Midleton was in the baronies of Barrymore, Cork and Imokilly, county Cork, where he owned land in at least 20 parishes but mainly in the parishes of Dungourney, Mogeesha, Dunbulloge, Little Island, St Michaels, Templenacarriga and Ballyoughtera, Middleton and Mogeely. Viscount Midleton was also the immediate lessor of the townland of Lissamota, parish of Ballingarry, barony of Connello Upper, county Limerick. In 1850 he owned townlands in the parish of Kilronan, barony of Glenahiry, county Waterford. The greater part of this estate had been sold to the Earl of Stradbrooke in the 1840s. In the 1870s the estate of the 8th Viscount Midleton of Pepper Harrow, Surrey, amounted to 6,188 acres in county Cork.