Peter Browne, 2nd Earl of Altamont ( – 28 December 1780) was an Anglo-Irish politician and landowner. He was the son of

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, and Anne Gore, and was involved in organising the construction of the town of

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with the architect William Leeson.

Marriage and Estates

He married Elizabeth Kelly (1732-1765) on 16 April 1752. She was the daughter of Denis Kelly, former

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and his wife Priscilla Halstead. Elizabeth was the only legitimate child and heiress of Denis Kelly. The Jamaican

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s as well as the Lisduff and Spring Garden estates, both in the

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, Barony of Leitrim (County Galway) thus passed into the ownership of the Browne family. The couple took up residence at Mount Browne, a few miles from Westport.

He adopted the additional surname of Kelly. Elizabeth Browne Kelly died at Mount Browne on 2 August 1765, aged thirty-three. The townland of Lisduff exceeds 264 acres while the townland of Spring Garden exceeds 275 acres. The Lisduff estate was acquired from Denis Kelly's brother, Edmond Kelly. The estate was enlarged by land purchases in the townland of Drumatober (also in the Barony of Leitrim, Abbeygormacan civil parish) and Garrancarf in 1749, and of the lands of Cormickoge from John Burke in 1750. Elizabeth Kelly's half-sister, Priscilla Kelly, married Robert Cooper Lee, Crown Solicitor-General of Jamaica. Their daughter, Favell Bourke Lee, married David Bevan, a British banker of Barclay, Bevan, Bennin, Tritton (forerunners of Barclays Bank DCO). This united several aristocratic families of Britain. Peter Browne was elected Member of Parliament for Mayo in the

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for 1761 to 1768.

Issue

* Charlotte, born 31 July 1765, married John Mahon of Bessborough, Co Tipperary on 9 January 1794 and died 23 January 1849 * John Denis Browne, 1st Marquess of Sligo *

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* Elizabeth, c. 1765-1795 * Anne, Countess of Desart, Viscountess Desart, Viscountess Castlecuffe, Baroness Desart (c. 1765–1814), married

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Illegitimate issue

* Peter Browne, Dean of Ferns from 1794 until his death on 21 July 1842.''The Brownes of Westport House: Aristocracy, Politics and the Exercise of Power in County Mayo: 1780-1830'', Gordon Kennedy (Ph.D. thesis, Dublin City University, 2009), p. 17
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References

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Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish slave owners Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Mayo constituencies Earls of Altamont