Samuel Lombard Brown (10 January 1856 – 14 December 1939) was an Irish politician and barrister. He studied at

University College Cork University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork. The university was founded in 1845 as one ...

(UCC), graduating MA, and at King's Inns. He also attended lectures in feudal and English law at

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(TCD) from 1876 to 1877. He was Barrington lecturer in political economy at UCC from 1879 to 1883, and was called to the bar in 1881. In 1905 he was elected a bencher of the King's Inns and a member of the bar council. The acknowledged leader of the bar, he appeared in many of the important chancery cases of his day. He was to the fore of the campaign in 1915 to secure the

Hugh Lane Sir Hugh Percy Lane (9 November 1875 – 7 May 1915) was an Irish art dealer, collector and gallery director. He is best known for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art (the first known public gallery of modern art in the ...

bequest for Dublin. He retired from practice in 1926. He was an

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member of

Seanad Éireann Seanad Éireann (, ; "Senate of Ireland") is the upper house of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature), which also comprises the President of Ireland and Dáil Éireann (the lower house). It is commonly called the Seanad or Senate and its memb ...

from 1923 to 1925 and from 1926 to 1936. He was elected at a by-election on 12 December 1923, replacing

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, but lost his seat at the 1925 Seanad election. He was re-elected at a by-election on 10 February 1926, replacing Windham Wyndham-Quin. He was re-elected at the 1934 Seanad election and served until the Free State Seanad was abolished in 1936. A member of the largely ex-unionist independent group in the Seanad, Brown was a supporter of

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and raised funds for the party. As president of the ''Irish Society for the Protection of Birds'', he introduced a bill for the protection of wild birds in 1927. Although initially rejected by the Dáil, it was passed two years later in a considerably enlarged form. Brown accepted appointment as regius professor of laws (1934–1939) at TCD. He never married, and died on 14 December 1939 at his home, in

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, Dublin.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Samuel Lombard 1856 births 1939 deaths Independent members of Seanad Éireann Irish barristers Members of the 1922 Seanad Members of the 1925 Seanad Members of the 1928 Seanad Members of the 1931 Seanad Members of the 1934 Seanad Politicians from Dublin (city) Alumni of King's Inns Alumni of University College Cork