He took the additional name of Brereton in 1800, having inherited Shotwick Park in Saughall from his first cousin Owen Salusbury Brereton.
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On 9 August 1918 east of Amiens, France, during an attack when a line of hostile machine-guns opened fire suddenly on his platoon which was in an exposed position with no cover Corporal Brereton realised that unless something was done, his platoon would be annihilated.
Brereton was then a groom of the Privy Chamber and one of the other guests at the secret royal wedding, along with Thomas Heneage and Henry Norris.
Born in the mining town of Pilgrim's Rest, she was the daughter of Victor Brereton, a land-surveyor, and Gladys Evans.
This used to be the family seat of the Lords Brereton, but the Lordship ended in 1722 when the fifth Baron Brereton died a bachelor.
The airfield was a waypoint on the "Brereton Route" the early months of 1942 during World War II for operations between Australia and Java.
This incident was in retaliation to a free kick paid against Brereton for kissing Essendon's Billy Duckworth while Jason Dunstall lined up for goal.
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In 2004, Brereton hosted The Run Home radio show on Melbourne AM radio station SEN 1116 with Anthony Hudson and Matthew Hardy, but left due to a payment dispute.
He was recognized by a friend, John Brereton, who was watching the NBC program Unsolved Mysteries.
About this time Mr. Brereton obtained from Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland a post belonging to the customs at Parkgate, Cheshire, but in February 1722, he was unfortunately drowned in the River Dee at Saltney, when the tide was coming in.
In recognition of his work in Devon, in 1858 Brereton was made prebendary of Exeter Cathedral.
Assisted by his adviser, Dr Philip Dorling, Brereton was instrumental in revising Federal Labor policy to support self-determination and independence for East Timor.
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Gerard married firstly Mary, daughter of Sir John Brereton and secondly with whom he had no children, and secondly Mary, daughter of John Cosin, Bishop of Durham, with whom he had a daughter, Charlotte and a son and heir Sir Gilbert Cosins Gerard, 2nd Baronet.
In 1699, a family dispute broke out between these heirs, when Susanna Brereton's daughter Mary, who had married John Levett Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, London, petitioned the House of Lords in London on behalf of Edward Ward, 11th Baron Dudley and 3rd Baron Ward, who was an infant when his father died, and whose guardianship had been held by Edward, Earl of Meath, and his wife, who was the aunt of the infant lord.
In 1643, parliamentarian forces under the command of Sir William Brereton advanced from Northwich to launch an attack on Warrington, the Lancashire headquarters of the royalist James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.
The 1978 children's paranormal TV drama "The Clifton House Mystery" was a ghost story based on the circumstances of Brereton's death.
Indeed in May 1995, the claimant, John Tomlinson (then aged 18), visited an artificial lake, part of a country park in Brereton, Cheshire in the borough of Congleton with his friends.
In 1884 Brereton succeeded in getting railway access to the school through the County School station built at the foot of the hill.
He held no military commission during the Civil War but was an active Commissioner of Array and garrisoned Brereton.
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Brereton was the son of Sir John Brereton (the 4th son and heir apparent to his grandfather Sir William Brereton, 1st Baron Brereton) of Brereton Hall and Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Fitton.
Brereton became an original Fellow of the Royal Society on 22 April 1663.
Barlow was the third son of Sir Alexander Barlow of Barlow Hall, Chorlton, in the county of Lancashire, England, by his marriage to Mary Brereton.