Thomas Brooke, 2nd Viscount Alanbrooke
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Thomas Brooke, 2nd Viscount Alanbrooke (9 January 1920 – 19 December 1972), was a British hereditary peer.
From an Ulster Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, Brooke was the elder son of Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke and his first wife Jane Richardson.
Brooke was educated at Wellington College in Berkshire and fought in the Second World War in the Royal Artillery. He succeeded to the viscountcy and the subsidiary title Baron Alanbrooke on the death of his father in 1963.
Career
Brooke was a writer and a watercolour artist.