The title of Earl of Kenmare was created in the

Peerage of Ireland The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It is one of the five divisi ...

in 1801. It became extinct upon the death of the 7th Earl in 1952. All of the Earls bore the subsidiary titles of Viscount Castlerosse (1801), Viscount Kenmare (1798), and Baron Castlerosse (1798) in the Peerage of Ireland. The 2nd Earl was created Baron Kenmare, of Castlerosse in the County of Kerry in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1841, but this title became extinct upon his death. His brother and successor, the third earl, was again created Baron Kenmare, of Castlerosse in the County of Kerry in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1856, and this title survived until the extinction of the earldom in 1952.

The Browne line

Sir Valentine Browne Sir Valentine Browne (died 1589), of Croft, Lincolnshire, was auditor, treasurer and victualler of Berwick-upon-Tweed. He acquired large estates in Ireland during the Plantation of Munster, in particular the seignory of Molahiffe. He lived at R ...

, knight (died 1589) * Sir Nicholas Browne (died 12 December 1606)

Baronets Browne of Molahiffe, County Kerry (1622)

Sir Valentine Browne, 1st Baronet Sir Valentine Browne, 1st Baronet, of Molahiffe (died 1633), owned a large estate in south-west Ireland and was a lawyer who served as high sheriff of County Kerry. Birth and origins Valentine was probably born in the 1580s in Ireland. He w ...

(died 7 September 1633) *

Sir Valentine Browne, 2nd Baronet Sir Valentine Browne, 2nd Baronet, of Molahiffe (died 1640), was an Irish landowner and MP. Birth and origins Valentine was born about 1615. He was the eldest son of Sir Valentine Browne and his first wife, Alice FitzGerald. His father wa ...

(died 25 April 1640) * Valentine Browne, 3rd Baronet (1638–1694)

Viscounts Kenmare, Barons Castlerosse (1689)

The third Baronet Browne was created first Viscount Kenmare and Baron Castlerosse (Ireland) on 20 May 1689, by King James II, after his deposition by the English Parliament, but while he still possessed his rights as King of Ireland. At the time James was presiding over the short-lived

Patriot Parliament Patriot Parliament is the name commonly used for the Irish Parliament session called by King James II during the Williamite War in Ireland which lasted from 1688 to 1691. The first since 1666, it held only one session, which lasted from 7 May ...

. The peerage remained on the Irish patent roll in a constitutionally ambiguous position, but was not recognized by the Protestant political establishment. *Sir Valentine Browne, 1st Viscount Kenmare, 3rd Baronet (1638–1694), attainted 1691 *Sir

Nicholas Browne, 2nd Viscount Kenmare Nicholas Browne, 2nd Viscount Kenmare (c.1660 – 1720) was an Irish Jacobite politician and soldier. Early life and family Browne was the son of Sir Valentine Browne, Bt and Jane Plunkett, the heiress of Sir Nicholas Plunkett. Browne married h ...

, 4th Baronet (died April 1720) *Sir

Valentine Browne, 3rd Viscount Kenmare Sir Valentine Browne, 5th Baronet and 3rd Viscount Kenmare in the Jacobite Peerage (1695–1736) Birth and origins Valentine was the son of Nicholas Browne and his wife, Helen Browne. His father was the 2nd Viscount Kenmare. His mother was ...

, 5th Baronet (March 1695 – 30 June 1736) *Sir

Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare Thomas Browne, 6th Baronet & 4th Viscount Kenmare (April 1726 – 11 September 1795) was an Irish landowner and politician. Family Thomas Browne's father, Valentine Browne, 3rd Viscount Kenmare, Valentine Browne (1695–1736), 5th Baronet ...

, 6th Baronet (1726 – 9 September 1795)

Earls of Kenmare (1801)

The seventh Baronet Browne was created first Baron Castlerosse and first Viscount Kenmare on 12 February 1798, with the earlier peerages not being recognised. He was created first Earl of Kenmare on 3 January 1801. * Valentine Browne, 1st Earl of Kenmare (January 1754 – 1812) * Valentine Browne, 2nd Earl of Kenmare (1788–1853), son of the 1st Earl, married Augusta Anne Wilmot, 2nd daughter of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart. *

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(1789–1871), brother of the 2nd Earl, married Catherine O'Callaghan * Valentine Augustus Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare (1825–1905), son of the 3rd Earl, married Gertrude-Harriet Thynne, only daughter of Lord Charles Thynne, son of the 2nd Marquis of Bath * Valentine Charles Browne, 5th Earl of Kenmare (1860–1941) * Valentine Edward Charles Browne, 6th Earl of Kenmare (1891–1943) * Gerald Ralph Desmond Browne, 7th Earl of Kenmare (1896–1952)

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