Victor Brooke

Sir Victor Alexander Brooke, 3rd Baronet (5 January 1843 – 23 November 1891[1]), was an Anglo-Irish sportsman-naturalist and baronet. He was the father of Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, and grandfather of The 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. He shot and collected game trophies from around the world, took a special interest in deer and antelope species and published the first scientific description of the Persian fallow deer as a new species in 1875.

  1. ^ Stephen, Oscar Leslie (1894). Sir Victor Brooke, sportsman & naturalist: a memoir of his life and extracts from his letters and journals. London: John Murray. p. 25.