Viscount Midleton

His grandson, the third Viscount, co-represented Ashburton then New Shoreham in the British House of Commons.

In 1796 he was created Baron Brodrick, of Peper Harow in the County of Surrey, in the Peerage of Great Britain, with a special remainder to the heirs male of his father, the third Viscount.

His son, the ninth Viscount, was a prominent Conservative politician and government minister (1880-1906) and from 1910 was the nominal leader of the Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA) in Southern Ireland.

The ancestral seat of the Brodrick family was Peper Harow, its final form commissioned by the third Viscount, near Godalming, Surrey.

The family's original seat was Ballyannan Castle near Midleton in County Cork, which they occupied until c. 1728, but continued to own; it was becoming a ruin by 1837.