Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu

Anthony-Maria Browne (1574–1629) was an English peer during the Tudor and Stuart period.

He was born in 1574, son of Anthony Browne ( died 1592),^[1] eldest son of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, and Mary Dormer, and become the Second Viscount Montagu on the death of his grandfather in 1592. He married Jane Sackville, the daughter of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, in 1591. Their children were:

• Francis (the Third Viscount Montagu)
• Anthony
• Mary, who married the 3rd Baron Petre and was the mother of the Catholic martyr William Petre, 4th Baron Petre.
• Thomas
• Catherine
• Anne (who became a nun)
• Lucy (who became a nun)
• Barbara

Anthony-Maria Browne was arrested in connection with the gunpowder plot and spent about a year in the Tower of London.

He wrote a book on how to manage a nobleman's household entitled, "A Book of Orders and Rules"

He died on 23 October 1629 and is buried in Midhurst Church.

References

External links

• Anthony Viscount Montague's "A Book of Orders and Rules", by Sir Sibbald David Scott, in Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. vii, London (1854) at Google Books

Peerage of England
Preceded by Anthony Browne	Viscount Montagu 1592–1629	Succeeded by Francis Browne

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Name	Montagu, Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount
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Date of birth	1554
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Date of death	1629
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