Sir Victor Alexander Brooke, 3rd Baronet (5 January 1843 – 27 November 1891), was an Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish was a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy, mostly belonging to the Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until...

 naturalist

Natural history

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 and baronet

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. He was the father of Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke

Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke

Field Marshal The Rt. Hon. Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar , was a senior commander in the British Army. He was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the Second World War, and was promoted to Field Marshal in 1944...

, and grandfather of Sir Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough

Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough

Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Bt, KG, CBE, MC, PC, HML was an Ulster Unionist politician who became the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in 1943 and held office until 1963....

, third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland

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.

Brooke, whose family were Ulster

Ulster

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 aristocrats

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 from County Fermanagh

County Fermanagh

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 in the north of Ireland

Ireland

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, studied at Harrow

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 and then traveled abroad, being a keen sportsman who enjoyed big game hunting

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. His proposed work on antelope

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s remained unfinished at his death. The plates by Joseph Smit

Joseph Smit

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 and Joseph Wolf

Joseph Wolf

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 were later reused in Philip Sclater

Philip Sclater

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 and Oldfield Thomas

Oldfield Thomas

Oldfield Thomas FRS was a British zoologist.Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and sub-species for the first time. He was appointed to the Museum Secretary's office in 1876, transferring to the Zoological Department in 1878...

's The Book of Antelopes (1894-1900).

Brooke married Alice Sophia, daughter of Sir Alan Edward Bellingham, 3rd Baronet, in 1864. After their marriage they settled at a villa in Pau, France. It was there that his sixth son, Alan - later Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke

Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke

Field Marshal The Rt. Hon. Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar , was a senior commander in the British Army. He was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the Second World War, and was promoted to Field Marshal in 1944...

 - was born. Brooke died of pneumonia

Pneumonia

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in Pau in November 1891, aged 48, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, Arthur. Lady Brooke died in July 1920.