Jeremy Ulick Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo (4 June 1939 – 13 July 2014), styled Earl of Altamont until 1991, was an Irish

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and

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. On the death of his father, he was entitled to sit in the

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by virtue of the subsidiary title Baron Mounteagle, in the

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. However, he never took his seat and lost the right with the passage of the

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Biography

Altamont was the eldest son of Jose Gauche and Denis Browne, 10th Marquess of Sligo born in 1939. He was educated at

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, and briefly the Royal Agricultural College, which he left after only two terms. He returned to Ireland and help run the family estate,

Westport House Westport House in Westport, County Mayo, Westport, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, is a Georgian architecture, Georgian country house, historically the family seat of the Marquess of Sligo and the Brownes. The house was designed by ...

. During

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, the estate was invaded by IRA supporters who waved black flags in support of the 1981 Irish hunger strike, a situation which Altamont was able to defuse. In May 2014 his book, ''A Life at Westport House: 50 Years A-Going'', was released. He was married on 26 October 1961 to Jennifer June Lushington Cooper, daughter of Derek Cooper. Lady Sligo is the stepdaughter of the former Viscountess Ruthven of Canberra, and her father became in 1952 the stepfather of two young stepsons, now the late Earl of Gowrie and his brother the journalist and Islamic scholar Malise Ruthven. The Marquess and Marchioness had five daughters. After his death, his daughters inherited the family estate of Westport while his cousin Sebastian Browne succeeded him as Marquess. Lord Sligo introduced a private members' Bill in

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in 1990 to allow the dissolution of a family trust which would prevent his five daughters from inheriting Westport House due to their

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References

External links

The Browne Family
westporthouse.ie; accessed 3 November 2015. * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sligo, Jeremy Browne, 11th Marquess Of 1939 births 2014 deaths Nobility from County Mayo Place of birth missing Place of death missing Jeremy Jeremy People educated at St Columba's College, Dublin Earls of Clanricarde People educated at Ludgrove School

Sligo Sligo ( ; , meaning 'abounding in shells') is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht. With a population of 20,608 in 2022, it is the county's largest urban centre (constituting 2 ...