Charles Brodrick, 6th Viscount Midleton (14 September 1791 – 2 December 1863) was a British nobleman.
The son of Charles Brodrick, Archbishop of Cashel, and Mary Woodward, he succeeded to the peerage on the 1 November 1848. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge University and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1813 to practice as a barrister. [1] He married Emma Stapleton on the 5 May 1825, with whom he had two daughters: Mary Emma Brodrick (20 Feb 1826 – 25 May 1896) and Albinia Frances Brodrick (5 May 1831 – 18 Mar 1918), the latter being an ancestress of English writer/comedienne Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Brodrick was an active member of several Anglican charities and missionary organisations, including the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, [2] Bath Church Missionary Society, [3] Scripture Reader's Society for Ireland [4] and the Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. [5]
Charles Brodrick, 6th Viscount Midleton (14 September 1791 – 2 December 1863) was a British nobleman.
The son of Charles Brodrick, Archbishop of Cashel, and Mary Woodward, he succeeded to the peerage on the 1 November 1848. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge University and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1813 to practice as a barrister. [1] He married Emma Stapleton on the 5 May 1825, with whom he had two daughters: Mary Emma Brodrick (20 Feb 1826 – 25 May 1896) and Albinia Frances Brodrick (5 May 1831 – 18 Mar 1918), the latter being an ancestress of English writer/comedienne Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Brodrick was an active member of several Anglican charities and missionary organisations, including the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, [2] Bath Church Missionary Society, [3] Scripture Reader's Society for Ireland [4] and the Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. [5]