John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel (16 November 1690 – 27 February 1754), KB, known as Sir John Brownlow, 5th Baronet, from 1701 to 1718, of

Belton House Belton House is a Grade I listed country house in the parish of Belton near Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, built between 1685 and 1688 by Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet. It is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading t ...

near

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in Lincolnshire, was a British politician who sat in the

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from 1713 to 1741.

Origins

He was the only son of

Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet (5 November 1665 – 6 March 1701) of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was an English Member of Parliament. Origins He was the younger son of Sir Richard Brownlow, 2nd Baronet (died 1668) of Humby ...

(1665–1701) of Belton by his first wife Dorothy Mason, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Mason (d. 1685), MP, of Sutton in Surrey.

Career

Both his parents died before he was 11 and he was brought up by his maternal grandmother, Lady Mason, who had assumed administration of his father's affairs. When he came of age at 21, he found great fault with the management of his property, and the resulting coolness between himself and his grandmother was exacerbated by his possession of the Mason manor of Sutton in Surrey, which he had inherited from his mother, but which Lady Mason believed belonged rightly to the children of her other daughter,

Anne Brett Anne Brett or Anne Mason; Anne Gerard, Countess of Macclesfield (1667/8 – 11 October 1753) was a Kingdom of Great Britain courtier. She had a scandalous divorce. References Brett was born in Shropshire in 1667 or 1668. Her parents were Anna an ...

, aka Anne Mason, the notorious Countess of Macclesfield, the divorced former wife of

Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (c. 16595 November 1701) was an English peer, soldier and MP. Biography He was born in France, the eldest son of Charles Gerard, Baron Brandon (later 1st Earl of Macclesfield), and Jeanne, the daughter of ...

. In

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Brownlow was elected as a

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for

. In

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he was returned unopposed as an MP for

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instead. In 1718 he was raised to the

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as Baron Charleville in the County of Cork, and as

Viscount Tyrconnel Viscount Tyrconnel was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1718 for Sir John Brownlow, 5th Baronet, Member of Parliament for Grantham and Lincolnshire. He was made Baron Charleville, in the County of Cork, at the same time, also ...

. He was re-elected as MP for Grantham in

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and was returned there unopposed in

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and

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. He did not stand in 1741. In literature, referred to as Lord Tyrconnel, he is known as the sometime patron of the poet, Richard Savage, who claimed to be the illegitimate son of

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and

. The motives for his patronage are unclear but, apparently, he accepted the poet's claim as to his parentage and, as referenced above, there was familial friction between Lord Tyrconnel and his grandmother, Lady Mason.

Marriages

He married twice, but produced no progeny: *Firstly to his first cousin Eleanor Brownlow (d.1730), youngest of the four daughters and co-heiress of his uncle

Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet (26 June 1659 – 16 July 1697) of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was an English member of parliament. He built the grand mansion of Belton House, which survives today. He was born on 26 June 1659, ...

(1659–1697), the builder of

. On her father's death in 1697 she received a share of his estate, but not until the death of her mother Alice Sherard in 1721 did she recover possession of Belton House. *Secondly in 1732 he married Elizabeth Cartwright, a daughter of William Cartwright (1675–1748) of Marnham, Nottinghamshire, whose mural monument survives in St Wilfrid's Church,

Low Marnham Low Marnham is a small village 12 miles east of Edwinstowe, in the civil parish of Marnham, in the Bassetlaw district, in the county of Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands ...

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Death and succession

He died without progeny in February 1754, aged 63, whereupon both the baronetcy and the two peerages became extinct. The Brownlow estates, including Belton House, were inherited by his nephew

Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet PC (29 August 1718 – 24 January 1770), of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was a British politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1761 to 1770. Origins He was the eldest son of Sir ...

(1718–1770) (son of his sister Anne Brownlow), whose son later in 1776 was raised to the peerage as

Baron Brownlow Baron Brownlow, of Belton, South Kesteven, Belton in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1776 for Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow, Sir Brownlow Cust, 4th Baronet. The Cust family descends from S ...

References

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