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Sebastian Browne, 12th Marquess Of Sligo
Marquess of Sligo is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for John Browne, 3rd Earl of Altamont. The Marquess holds the subsidiary titles of Baron Mount Eagle, of Westport in the County of Mayo (created 10 September 1760), Viscount Westport, of Westport in the County of Mayo (created 24 August 1768), Earl of Altamont, in the County of Mayo (created 4 December 1771), Earl of Clanricarde (created 1800) and Baron Monteagle, of Westport in the County of Mayo (created 20 February 1806). All these titles are in the Peerage of Ireland, except the Barony of Monteagle, which is in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The latter peerage entitled the Marquesses to a seat in the House of Lords prior to the House of Lords Act 1999. The Earldom of Clanricarde was inherited by the sixth Marquess in 1916 according to a special remainder in the letters patent. History The Browne family descends from Colonel John Browne, younger son of Sir John Browne, 1st Baronet, of The Neal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronet Of A British Marquess
A coronet is a small crown consisting of ornaments fixed on a metal ring. A coronet differs from other kinds of crowns in that a coronet never has arches, and from a tiara in that a coronet completely encircles the head, while a tiara does not. In other languages, this distinction is not made as usually the same word for ''crown'' is used irrespective of rank (german: Krone, nl, Kroon, sv, Krona, french: Couronne, etc.) Today, its main use is not as a headgear (indeed, many people entitled to a coronet never have a physical one created), but as a rank symbol in heraldry, adorning a coat of arms. Etymology The word stems from the Old French ''coronete'', a diminutive of ''co(u)ronne'' ('crown'), itself from the Latin ''corona'' (also 'wreath') and from the Ancient Greek ''κορώνη'' (''korōnē''; 'garland' or 'wreath'). Traditionally, such headgear is used by nobles and by princes and princesses in their coats of arms, rather than by monarchs, for whom the word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Lieutenant Of Mayo
This is a list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Mayo. There were lieutenants of counties in Ireland until the reign of James II, when they were renamed governors. The office of Lord Lieutenant was recreated on 23 August 1831. Governors * James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley: –1774 * John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont: 1774–1776 * Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan: 1776– * John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine: –1794 * John Browne, 1st Marquess of Sligo 1779–1808 * Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran: Beatson's ''Political Index'' (1806) vol. IIIp. 372 1794–1809 * James Cuffe, 1st Baron Tyrawley: 1778?–1821 * Charles Dillon, 12th Viscount Dillon: 1809–1813 * James Cuffe: 1818–1828''The Royal Kalendar'' for 1828p. 386 * James Caulfeild Browne, 2nd Baron Kilmaine: 1821–1825 * Dominick Geoffrey Browne: –1831''The Royal Kalendar'' for 1831p. 389 * Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo: –1831 Lord Lieutenants * The 2nd Marquess of Sligo: 7 October 1831 – 26 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Browne, 6th Marquess Of Sligo
George Ulick Browne, 6th Marquess of Sligo and 4th Earl of Clanricarde (1 September 1856 – 26 February 1935), styled Earl of Altamont until 1913, was an Irish peer. George was the eldest son of Henry Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo, and his wife Catherine Henrietta Dicken. He was born in Munger, British India. He succeeded to the marquessate in February 1913, aged 56, on the death of his father. He married Agatha Stewart Hodgson, daughter of James Stewart Hodgson, on 12 October 1887. They had three daughters and one son: * Eileen Agatha Browne (1889–1940) — married James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope * Moya Melisende Browne (1892–1974) * Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne, Doreen Geraldine Browne (1896–1979) — married Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne * Ulick de Burgh Browne, 7th Marquess of Sligo (1898–1941) Upon the 1916 death of Hubert de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde, the Marquess of Sligo also became Earl of Clanricarde. In 1921 he attended th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Browne, 5th Marquess Of Sligo
Henry Ulick Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo (14 March 1831 – 24 February 1913), styled Lord Henry Browne until 1903, was an Irish peer. Browne was the fourth son of Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, and Lady Hester Catherine de Burgh, daughter of John de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde. He succeeded to the marquessate in December 1903, aged 72, on the death of his unmarried elder brother. He married Catherine Henrietta Dicken, daughter of William Stephens Dicken, on 25 October 1855. They had ten children: * George Browne, 6th Marquess of Sligo (1856–1935) * Catherine Elizabeth Browne (1857–1874) * Herbert Richard Browne (1858–1890) * Lady Edith Hester Browne (1860–1936) * Lady Florence Marion Browne (1863–1946) * Arthur Browne, 8th Marquess of Sligo (1867–1951) * Terence Browne, 9th Marquess of Sligo (1873–1952) * Lady Nora Browne (1873–1948) * Alice Evelyn Browne (1877–?) * Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Alfred Eden Browne, DSO, Royal Field Artillery, (187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Browne, 4th Marquess Of Sligo
John Thomas Browne, 4th Marquess of Sligo (10 September 1824 – 30 December 1903), styled Lord John Browne until 1868, was an Irish politician and naval commander. Browne served as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Mayo in Ireland from 1857 to 1868. He had previously served as an officer of the Royal Navy. In 1896, Browne became Marquess of Sligo on the death of his elder brother, the 3rd Marquess, also inheriting some of land and the family seat at Westport House, Westport, County Mayo.'Sligo, 4th Marquess of' in ''Who Was Who'' (London: A. & C. Black) He died unmarried and was succeeded by his brother, Henry. References * G. E. C., ed. Geoffrey F. White. ''The Complete Peerage''. (London: St Catherine Press, 1953) Vol. XII, Part 1, p. 26. * External links * 1824 births 1903 deaths Royal Navy officers Politicians from County Mayo Browne Browne Browne Browne UK MPs who inherited peerages Browne John John 4 John 4 is the fourth chapter of the Gospel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Browne, 3rd Marquess Of Sligo
George John''The Irish in America - Long Journey Home: The Great Hunger'' (Documentary). Public Broadcasting Service Browne, 3rd Marquess of Sligo (31 January 1820 – 30 August 1896) was an Irish peer. The son of Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, George Browne was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He married three times but died without male issue. He married, * firstly, Ellen Smythe, daughter of the 6th Viscount Strangford, * secondly, Julia Nugent, daughter of the 9th Earl of Westmeath and * thirdly, Isabelle de Peyronnet, daughter of the ''Vicomte de Peyronnet''. Like his predecessors, Browne prided himself on being an enlightened landlord. In the second year of the Great Irish Famine, Browne's tenants gathered at Westport House, the ancestral residence of the Marquesses of Sligo. Browne assured his tenants of his support for them, and proceeded to hand them guns (without regard for his own safety), enabling them to hunt for game. He also went into consi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess Of Sligo
Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo (18 May 1788, London – 26 January 1845, Tunbridge Wells), was an Irish peer and colonial governor, styled Viscount Westport until 1800 and Earl of Altamont from 1800 to 1809. Early life Howe Browne was the son and heir of John Browne, 1st Marquess of Sligo. He was educated at Eton and Jesus College, Cambridge, receiving his MA as Lord Altamont in 1808. During his early years he is reputed to have befriended Thomas De Quincey and Lord Byron. He became Marquess of Sligo in 1809 on the death of his father and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 11 November 1809. In 1812 Browne was charged with "enticing and persuading (a seaman) to desert (the navy)", a charge punishable with the death sentence at its most extreme. Browne was found guilty and sentenced to a £5,000 fine and four months in Newgate prison. In an odd turn of events, during the course of the trial, his mother grew amorous for the Judge Sir William Scott. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Browne, 2nd Earl Of Altamont
Peter Browne, 2nd Earl of Altamont (c. 1731 - 28 December 1780) was an Irish landowner, absentee slaveholder and MP. He was the son of John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont, and Anne Gore. He married Elizabeth Kelly, the only legitimate child and heiress of Denis Kelly, on 16 April 1752. Denis (or Dennis) Kelly was Chief Justice of Jamaica and the Brownes inherited the Jamaican slave plantations as well as Lisduff estate and Spring Garden estate, both in the civil parish of Tynagh, Barony of Leitrim (County Galway). The townland of Lisduff exceeds 264 acres while the townland of Spring Garden exceeds 275 acres. The Lisduff estate was acquired from Denis Kelly's brother, Edmond Kelly. The estate was enlarged by land purchases in the townland of Drumatober (also in the Barony of Leitrim, Abbeygormacan civil parish) and Garrancarf in 1749, and of the lands of Cormickoge from John Burke in 1750. He adopted the additional surname of Kelly. Elizabeth Kelly's half-sister, Priscilla Kel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Browne, 1st Earl Of Altamont
John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont (c.1709 – 4 July 1776), known as The Lord Mount Eagle between 1760 and 1768 and as The Viscount Westport between 1768 and 1771, was an Irish peer and politician. He began the building of Westport House and the town of Westport. Background and education Browne was the only son of Peter Browne, a prosperous Catholic landowner in County Mayo, and Mary Daly. He was a grandson of Colonel John Browne, a signatory of the Treaty of Limerick, and of Denis Daly, judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland). His sisters were Roman Catholics but he himself was a member of the Church of Ireland. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in July 1725. Career Browne was High Sheriff of Mayo in 1731, and was elected Member of Parliament for Castlebar in 1744, an office he held until 1760, although he rarely attended Parliament. He was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Mount Eagle, of Westport in the County of Mayo, and in 1768 he was created Visco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portwest
Portwest is a global clothing manufacturing company based in Westport, Ireland that specializes in the design and production of protective clothing, including high visibility, flame resistant workwear, safety footwear, work gloves and personal protective equipment (PPE). Portwest was founded by Charles Hughes in 1904, in Westport. The Hughes family still own and manage the company. Portwest directly employs 4,500 people worldwide and sell to 10,000 safety distributors and national retailers in more than 130 countries. Portwest expanded its Australian operations through the acquisition of two Australian companies, Prime Mover and Huski Explorer. Portwest also invested in Italian company Base Protection footwear, a premium safety footwear brand. History The origins of Portwest began in 1904 when Charles Hughes commenced his business as a small retail shop in Westport, Co. Mayo. Padraig Hughes, nephew of Charles Hughes, joined the business in 1936. After the death of his uncle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Ireland
Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island. Around 2.1 million of the country's population of 5.13 million people resides in the Greater Dublin Area. The sovereign state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, St George's Channel to the south-east, and the Irish Sea to the east. It is a unitary, parliamentary republic. The legislature, the , consists of a lower house, ; an upper house, ; and an elected President () who serves as the largely ceremonial head of state, but with some important powers and duties. The head of government is the (Prime Minister, literally 'Chief', a title not used in English), who is elected by the Dáil and appointed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westport, County Mayo
Westport (, historically anglicised as ''Cahernamart'') is a town in County Mayo in Ireland.Westport Before 1800 by Michael Kelly published in Cathair Na Mart 2019 It is at the south-east corner of Clew Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast of Ireland. Westport is a tourist destination and scores highly for quality of life. It won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition three times in 2001, 2006 and 2008. In 2012 it won the Best Place to Live in Ireland competition run by ''The Irish Times''. Westport is designated as a heritage town, and is one of only a few planned towns in Ireland. The town centre was laid-out in the Georgian architectural style, and incorporates the Carrow Beg river into the design composition. This provides for tree lined promenades (known as The Mall) and several stone bridges. The pilgrimage mountain of Croagh Patrick, known locally as "the Reek", lies some 10 km west of the town near the villages of Murrisk and Lecanvey. The mountain form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
