George Browne, 6th Marquess Of Sligo
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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), ...
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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, daugh ...
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, christening_date = , christening_place = , death_date = , death_place = , burial_date = , burial_place = , religion = , occupation = , memorials = , website = , module = 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 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, daugh ...
, and his wife Catherine Henrietta Dicken. He was born in Munger,
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. 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
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* Moya Melisende Browne (1892–1974) * Doreen Geraldine Browne (1896–1979) — married Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne *
Ulick de Burgh Browne, 7th Marquess of Sligo Ulick de Burgh Browne, 7th Marquess of Sligo (30 March 1898 – 7 January 1941) was a British and Irish peer and British army officer. He served in the cavalry regiment the Royal Scots Greys during World War I. He was known as the Earl of Alta ...
(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 the first meeting of the short-lived
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. In 1922 he was photographed by Walter Stoneman. In 1924 when visiting
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, the Marquess of Sligo succeeded in getting a specimen of the South China giant salamander sent to
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. The species was named ''Megalobatrachus sligoi'' in his honour; it is today called ''Andrias sligoi''. He died in 1935 in
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.{{Cite web, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lfg7ilbJhMYC&q=George+Browne%2C+6th+Marquess+of+Sligo&pg=PA13, title=A History of Burke in Ireland, publisher=Jim Burke, via=Google Books


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Further reading

* ''Burke's Irish Family Records'', Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, ed., 1976, p. 38. * ''The Complete Peerage'', volume XIV, 1998, p. 502.


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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), ...
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