Marquess of Sligo is a title in the

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. It was created in 1800 for John Browne, 3rd Earl of Altamont. The

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holds the subsidiary titles of Baron Mount Eagle, of Westport in the County of Mayo (created 10 September 1760), Viscount Westport, of Westport in the County of Mayo (created 24 August 1768), Earl of Altamont, in the County of Mayo (created 4 December 1771), Earl of Clanricarde (created 1800) and Baron Monteagle, of Westport in the County of Mayo (created 20 February 1806). All these titles are in the Peerage of Ireland, except the Barony of Monteagle, which is in the

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. The latter peerage entitled the Marquesses to a seat in the

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prior to the

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. The Earldom of Clanricarde was inherited by the sixth Marquess in 1916 according to a special remainder in the

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History

The Browne family descends from Colonel John Browne, younger son of Sir John Browne, 1st Baronet, of The Neale,

County Mayo County Mayo (; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht, it is named after the village of Mayo, County Mayo, Mayo, now ge ...

, whose eldest son, the second Baronet, was the ancestor of the Barons Kilmaine. The baronetcy was created in 1636. Colonel John Browne's grandson John Browne represented

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in the

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. He was created Baron Mount Eagle in 1760, Viscount Westport in 1768 and Earl of Altamont in 1771, the titles of Mount Eagle and Altamont deriving from

Croagh Patrick Croagh Patrick (), nicknamed 'the Reek', is a mountain with a height of and an important site of pilgrimage in County Mayo, Ireland. The mountain has a pyramid-shaped peak and overlooks Clew Bay, rising above the village of Murrisk, several ...

near Westport. Both his son, the second Earl, and grandson, the third Earl, represented

in the Irish Parliament. In 1800 the latter was elected as one of the 28 original Irish representative peer and later that year he was created Marquess of Sligo. In 1806, he was made Baron Monteagle in the

, which gave the Marquesses an automatic seat in the

. He was succeeded by his son, the second Marquess. He was Lord Lieutenant of County Mayo from 1842 to 1845. Lord Sligo married Lady Hester Catherine de Burgh, eldest daughter of John Thomas de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde. In 1800, Lord Clanricarde was given a new Earldom of Clanricarde, with remainder, failing heirs male of his own, to the heirs male of his two daughters. Lord Sligo's younger son, the fourth Marquess, represented

in Parliament from 1857 to 1868. His nephew, the sixth Marquess, succeeded to the Earldom of Clanricarde (1800 creation) in 1916 on the death of his cousin Hubert George de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde. As of 2014, the titles are held by his great-nephew, the twelfth Marquess, who succeeded his first cousin in 2014. He is a property consultant living in the central highlands of regional Victoria, Australia. The family seat was

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 ...

, near

Westport, County Mayo Westport (, historically anglicised as ''Cahernamart'') is a town in County Mayo in Republic of Ireland, Ireland.Westport Before 1800 by Michael Kelly published in Cathair Na Mart 2019 It is at the south-east corner of Clew Bay, an inlet of the ...

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. After the death of the 11th Marquess, it passed to his five daughters, in accordance with a private legislation passed by the Irish Senate in 1993. Westport House was sold by Lord Sligo's daughters in October 2017, breaking the formal link between Westport House and the family which had been ongoing for 380 years. The house was sold to the Hughes family, a local family of entrepreneurs with Portwest clothing manufacturing operations and a hotel in Westport.

Earls of Altamont (1771)

:''Other titles: Baron Mount Eagle, of Westport, in the County of Mayo (Ireland, 1760); and Viscount Westport, of Westport, in the County of Mayo (Ireland, 1768)'' *

John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont ( – 4 July 1776), styled Lord Mount Eagle between 1760 and 1768 and Viscount Westport between 1768 and 1771, was an Irish Peerage of Ireland, peer and politician. He began the building of Westport House and t ...

(–1776) * Peter Browne, 2nd Earl of Altamont (–1780) * John Denis Browne, 3rd Earl of Altamont (1756–1809) (created Marquess of Sligo In 1800)

Marquesses of Sligo (1800)

Present peer

Sebastian Ulick Browne, 12th Marquess of Sligo (born 27 May 1964), is the son of Lord Ulick Browne and his wife, Fiona Glenn, and a first cousin of the 11th Marquess. He was educated at

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'', volume 3, 2003, p. 3652 On 13 July 2014, Browne succeeded as Marquess of Sligo (I., 1800), Earl of Altamont (I., 1771), Earl of Clanricarde (I., 1800), Viscount Westport, of Westport (I., 1768), Baron Mount Eagle of Westport (I., 1760), and Baron Monteagle of Westport (U.K., 1806). Lord Sligo did not inherit

and the Altamont estate in Ireland, as his predecessor, the 11th Marquess, had successfully petitioned to have an Act of the Oireachtas (an Irish Act of Parliament) passed which enabled him to break the family trust and leave the estate to his five daughters. They were forced to sell the property in 2017.History
westporthouse.ie, accessed 26 February 2023 In 1984, the current Lord Sligo married firstly Christina Maria Suaznabar, daughter of Luis Suaznabar; they were divorced in 1992, after having two children: *Lady Camilla Browne (born 1986) *Christopher Ulick Browne, Earl of Altamont and Clanricarde (born 1988),

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On 22 January 2016, at

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, he married secondly Claire Suzanne van Middelkoop.

Line of succession

* ''Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo (1788–1845)'' ** ''George Browne, 3rd Marquess of Sligo (1820–1896)'' ** ''John Browne, 4th Marquess of Sligo (1824–1903)'' ** ''Henry Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo (1831–1913)'' *** ''George Browne, 6th Marquess of Sligo (1856–1935)'' **** ''Ulick de Burgh Browne, 7th Marquess of Sligo (1898–1941)'' *** ''Arthur Browne, 8th Marquess of Sligo (1867–1951)'' *** ''Terence Browne, 9th Marquess of Sligo (1873–1952)'' ***''Lord Alfred Eden Browne (1878–1918)'' **** ''Denis Browne, 10th Marquess of Sligo (1908–1991)'' ***** ''Jeremy Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo (1939–2014)'' ****''Lord Ulick Browne (1915–1979)'' ***** Sebastian Browne, 12th Marquess of Sligo (born 1964) ******(1). Christopher Ulick Browne, Earl of Altamont and Clanricarde (b. 1988) **''Lord Richard Howe Brown (1834–1912)'' ***''Percy Howe Browne (1868–1940)'' ****''Anthony Howe Browne (1905–1940)'' *****(2). Patrick Ulick Anthony Howe Browne (b. 1935) ******(3). Patrick Alexander Howe Browne (b. 1965) ******(4). Anthony Howe Browne (b. 1967) *******(5). Theo Howe Higgins Browne *****(6). Michael John le Roy Browne (b. 1936) ******(7). Richard Howe Browne (b. 1962) ******(8). Jeremy Ulick Browne (b. 1963) There are further male heirs in line to the earldom of Altamont and its subsidiary titles, who are descended from the younger son of the 2nd earl.

References

Citations

External links

Westport House website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sligo Marquessates in the Peerage of Ireland County Sligo 1800 establishments in Ireland

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 ...

Noble titles created in 1800 People educated at Rugby School