George Eakins Browne (1837-20 February 1923) was an
Irish politician.
He was born in 1837 to John Joseph Browne and Maria Eakins, of Brownstown,
Ballinrobe, County Mayo. The family estate amounted to some 2,809 acres during
Griffith's Valuation
Griffith's Valuation was a boundary and land valuation survey of Ireland completed in 1868.
Griffith's background
Richard John Griffith started to value land in Scotland, where he spent two years in 1806-1807 valuing terrain through the examinati ...
in the 1840s.
He was elected in 1870 as a
Member of Parliament for
Mayo, and was re-elected at the
1874 general election. The election was declared void on 7 May 1874, but Browne was re-elected at the resulting by-election, and held the seat until the
1880 general election, when he was defeated by
Charles Stewart Parnell.
During the
Parnell Commission
The Parnell Commission, officially Special Commission on Parnellism and Crime, was a judicial inquiry in the late 1880s into allegations of crimes by Irish parliamentarian Charles Stewart Parnell which resulted in his vindication.
Background
On ...
, he was referred to as "one of the three good landlords in Ireland".
He later moved to
County Dublin and was, for a time, a member of
Killiney Urban District Council. On his death, he lived at 14 Shanganagh Terrace,
Killiney.
The Irish Times wrote that he was the last of the generation of
Issac Butt's Home Rule Party: "At the time of his death, he was the last survivor of that group of public men, which included
William Archer Redmond, father of the late
John Redmond
John Edward Redmond (1 September 1856 – 6 March 1918) was an Irish nationalism, Irish nationalist politician, barrister, and Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. He was best known as lead ...
, and
Joseph Biggar."
Browne was married three times: In 1858, he married Julia Blake (d. 1876), daughter of Maurice Blake of Ballinafad, Drum, County Mayo. After her death, he married, in 1879, Julia Mary Lynch, daughter of James Lynch, and in 1883, Honoria Ellen Murphy, daughter of Francis Murphy JP of Kilcairne, Killucan, County Meath.
He had four daughters and a son, Major Llewellyn Montague Browne of the
Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
[Obituary: Mr George E. Browne, DL, Irish Times, 22 February 1923]
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1837 births
1923 deaths
Home Rule League MPs
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Mayo constituencies (1801–1922)
Politicians from County Mayo
UK MPs 1868–1874
UK MPs 1874–1880
People from Ballinrobe
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