Arthur Chamberlain Brownlow (20 March 1645 – 27 March 1711) was an

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politician. He was the son of Patrick Chamberlain of

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, and Letitia (Lettice) Brownlow, eldest daughter of Sir William Brownlow (1591-1661), a

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and his wife Eleanor O'Doherty (or O'Dougherty), daughter of the Irish rebel leader, Sir

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. He took his grandfather's family name as a condition of inheriting his estate. He was educated at

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. Like his grandfather, Brownlow was appointed High Sheriff of Armagh for 1668 and 1669, and represented

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in the

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between 1689 and 1711. Brownlow was one of only six Protestant members to sit in the short-lived

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called by

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in 1689; he was cleared of any wrongdoing during the Irish Parliament of 1692.O'Hart, John
The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689
''Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation'' (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 22 February 2023. He married Jane Hartstonge, daughter of

Sir Standish Hartstonge, 1st Baronet Sir Standish Hartstonge, 1st Baronet (1627–August 1701Oliver 1973 pp.42, 45) was an English-born lawyer who had a distinguished career as a judge in Ireland, but was twice removed from office. He was also a very substantial landowner in Ireland ...

and his first wife Elizabeth Jermyn. They had at least seven children, including William Brownlow, who like his father was MP for Armagh, and a daughter Lettice who married Robert Cope, MP and

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