June 9, 1888
Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, born
Ireland
Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough — unionist politician and Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1943 to 1963 — is born in Colebrooke, County Fermanagh on June 9, 1888. He was the first and only Northern Ireland Prime Minister to be elevated to the peerage.