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  Janus: The Papers of Brendan Bracken, Viscount Bracken of Christchurch
Brendan Rendall Bracken was born on 15 February 1901 in County Tipperary, the son of Joseph Kevin Bracken and Hannah Agnes Ryan.
Bracken was a "bright and unruly child" (Jason Tomes) and attended several schools including St Patrick's national school, O'Connell School, and Mungret, a Jesuit boarding-school.
Bracken's "social success was that of an unconventional 'character': a loud-mouthed know-all, impervious to rebuffs, who gatecrashed parties and insulted everyone with reckless abandon.
janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0014/BBKN;recurse=1   (813 words)

  
  Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken PC (15 February 1901 – 8 August 1958) was an Irish-born British Conservative cabinet minister.
Bracken had a career as a publisher and newspaper editor before being elected to the House of Commons in 1929.
He was elevated to the House of Lords by Churchill, as Viscount Bracken, of Christchurch in the County of Southampton, in 1952.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brendan_Bracken   (533 words)

  
 Brendan, St - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Brendan, St   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Born in Tralee, now in County Kerry, he is traditionally regarded as the founder of the monastery of Clonfert in County Galway (561), as well as other monasteries in Ireland and Scotland.
St Brendan is believed to have studied under the abbess St Ita in Limerick and abbot St Jarlath in Tuam.
The location of the land to which St Brendan is supposed to have voyaged is unclear.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Brendan,+St   (202 words)

  
 Brendan Bracken: The Fantasist Whose Dreams Came True - The Churchill Centre
Noticing Bracken's extraordinary influence with Churchill, people began to ask, "Who is he?" So emerged the clinging rumour that Bracken was Churchill's natural son, fanned, perhaps, by reports that Bracken was exhibiting Churchill family photographs in the flat he had taken in Mayfair.
Early in 1929 Bracken got himself adopted as Conservative candidate for North Paddington and was returned to the House of Commons at the General Election later that year which brought Labour to power.
Bracken refused ministerial office, preferring to remain close to Churchill, who overrode the opposition of the King and had Bracken made a member of the Privy Council.
www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=128   (3721 words)

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