George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton

George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton (1 November 1754 – 12 August 1836)[1] was an Anglo-Irish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1796, when he was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as Baron Brodrick to allow him to sit in the House of Lords.

[3] He succeeded his father in 1765, inheriting his Irish Viscouncy and the Peper Harow estate in Surrey with its new but incomplete mansion, which he completed once he came of age.

[4] From 1774 to 1796 Midleton was able as an Irish peer to sit as one of the two MPs for Whitchurch, the seat being in the gift of his mother's brother, Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney.

[5] On 11 June 1796, Midleton was created Baron Brodrick of Peper Harrow, in the county of Surrey.

[2] Midleton died at Peper Harrow (his principal ancestral estate in England) on 12 August 1836,[2] and was buried at Wandsworth.