Viscount Midleton
(1791-1863)
14 June 1861

Volume 4, page 81, sitting number 4395.

Charles Brodrick succeeded to the title 6th Viscount Midleton of Midleton in County Cork in 1846, when his cousin committed suicide by deliberately going to sleep in a small room in which he had ordered a charcoal brazier to be lighted (today recognised as carbon monoxide poisoning).

Charles Brodrick 6th Viscount Midleton, died on 2 December 1863. An announcement of his death appeared in the Cork Examiner two days later (4 December 1863): 'We regret to announce the death of Viscount Midleton at his seat, Peper Harrow, on the 2nd inst., after a long and painful illness. The deceased peer, the Right Hon. Charles Brodrick, sixth Viscount Midleton in the Peerage of Ireland, and third Baron Brodrick in the Peerage of England, born Sept. 14, 1791, was eldest son of the Right Hon. and Most Rev. Charles Archbishop of Cashel [in County Tipperary], and grandson of George third Viscount Midleton by Albinia, sister of Thos. Townshend Viscount Sydney. He married May, 5, 1825, the Hon. Emma Stapleton, third daughter of Thomas 22nd Lord Ledespencer [sic]. Lord Midleton, who was brother of the Countess Dowager of Bandon, is succeeded in his titles and estates by his brother, the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Exeter.'