Dominick Browne, 1st Baron Oranmore and Browne

      Dominick Browne, 1st Baron Oranmore and Browne PC (28 May 1787 – 30 January 1860), was an Irish politician.

      Browne was the son of Dominick Geoffrey Browne and his wife Margaret. She was the daughter of the Hon. George Browne, 4th son of John, 1st Earl of Altamont. His sister Henrietta (1789–1862) married Henry, Viscount Dillon and was ancestral to Clementine (the wife of Winston Churchill) and to the Mitford sisters.

      He sat as Member of Parliament for County Mayo from 1814 to 1826 and from 1830 to 1836 and was admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1834. In 1836 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Oranmore and Browne, of Carrabrowne Castle in the County of the Town of Galway and of Castle Macgarret in the County of Mayo.

      Lord Oranmore and Browne married Catherine Anne Isabella, daughter of Henry Monck, in 1811. He died in January 1860, aged 72, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Geoffrey. Lady Oranmore and Browne died in 1865.

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      Parliament of the United Kingdom
      Preceded by
      Denis Browne
      Henry Augustus Dillon
      Member of Parliament for County Mayo
      1814–1826
      With: Denis Browne 1814–1818
      James Browne 1814–1826
      Succeeded by
      James Browne
      Lord Bingham
      Preceded by
      James Browne
      Lord Bingham
      Member of Parliament for County Mayo
      1830–1836
      With: James Browne 1830–1831
      John Denis Browne 1831–1835
      Sir William John Brabazon 1835–1836
      Succeeded by
      Sir William John Brabazon
      Robert Dillon Browne
      Peerage of Ireland
      New creation Baron Oranmore and Browne
      1836–1860
      Succeeded by
      Geoffrey Guthrie-Browne


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