William Brownlow (1 September 1755 – 10 July 1815) of Lurgan,

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politician. He was the eldest son of

William Brownlow (1726–1794) William Brownlow PC (I) (10 April 1726 – 28 October 1794) of Lurgan, Co. Armagh was an Anglo-Irish politician. He was the only son of William Brownlow MP and Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn and Eli ...

and his wife Judith Letitia Meredith from whom he inherited one of the largest landholdings in Armagh. He was pricked High Sheriff of Armagh in 1787 and succeeded his father as MP for County Armagh constituency in the Irish House of Commons between 1795 and 1797.E. M. Johnston-Liik
''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.74 (Retrieved 26 February 2016). In 1807 he was elected as the Tory Member of Parliament for

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in the

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, sitting for the seat until his death in 1815. He founded, with three partners, the private bank of William Brownlow Esq., & Co. He married in 1803 Charity, the daughter of Matthew Ford of Seaford, but died childless in 1815. He was succeeded by his brother Charles, the father of

Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan PC (17 April 1795 – 30 April 1847), was an Anglo-Irish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1818 to 1832 and was raised to the peerage in 1839. Life Brownlow was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Charl ...

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