Geoffrey Browne, 3rd Baron Oranmore and Browne

Geoffrey Henry Browne, 3rd Baron Oranmore and Browne, 1st Baron Mereworth , KP , KStJ , PC (I), DL , JP (birth name: Geoffrey Henry Browne-Guthrie ; * January 6, 1861 ; † June 30, 1927 ) was a British peer and politician .

Life

Family background and Irish representative peer

Browne was the only son of Geoffrey Guthrie-Browne, 2nd Baron Oranmore and Browne and his wife Christina Guthrie. After attending school, he completed his military service in the 4th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and was finally promoted to lieutenant . This was followed by studies at the Trinity College of the University of Cambridge , which he in 1883 with a Bachelor of Arts graduated (BA). A subsequent postgraduate course at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, he finished in 1886 as a Master of Arts (MA). In the following years he worked as a magistrate ( justice of the peace ) for Ayrshire and the County Mayo worked and was in 1890 High Sheriff of County Mayo. He was also temporarily Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of County Mayo.

On the death of his father, Browne, who was also Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John (KStJ), inherited the title of 3rd Baron Oranmore and Browne on November 15, 1900, who on May 14, 1836 for his grandfather Dominick Browne in the peerage of Ireland was created. After Reymond de Montmorency, 3rd Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency, died on May 7th, 1902, he was elected as his successor to the Representative Peer on July 11th, 1902 and thus belonged to the 28 people who under the Act of Union 1800 the Irish hereditary nobility in House of Lords represented. Between July 1916 and March 1918 he belonged to the Irish Convention , an assembly in Dublin that dealt with the question of the political status of Ireland ( Irish Question ) under British self-government ( Home Rule ) after the Easter Rising in 1916 .

Browne, who also became Knight of St. Patrick (KP) in 1918 , served in 1919 as a member of the Congested District Board for Ireland , a commission set up by then Ireland's Minister Arthur James Balfour to fight poverty and overpopulation in the west and parts of the north-west of Ireland. After the passing of the Irish Government of Ireland Act in 1920, he became a member of the House of Lords ( Senate ) of the Parliament of Southern Ireland in 1921 . Since this, like the House of Commons, was boycotted by the Irish nationalists, so that only 15 out of 61 members gathered. In contrast to the House of Commons, however, two more Senate meetings took place before it was dissolved by the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922. He also became a member of the Privy Council of Ireland (PC (I)) in 1921 .

Baron Mereworth, marriage and descendants

By a letters patent from January 19, 1926 he was raised to Baron Mereworth , of Mereworth Castle, in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and thus belonged to the House of Lords as a hereditary peer . On June 7, 1927, he and his wife suffered a car accident in Southborough in which his wife died immediately, while he died just under three weeks later.

Geoffrey Henry Browne married on January 2, 1901 Olwen Verena Ponsonby, a daughter of the future 8th Earl of Bessborough , Edward Ponsonby , and his wife Blanche Guest. This marriage resulted in two sons and two daughters. His eldest son Dominick Geoffrey Edward Browne , who inherited the titles of 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne and 2nd Baron Mereworth after his death . His eldest daughter, Kathleen Marcia Browne, was with Cotterell Boughton Mordaunt-Smith, a major in the Welch Regiment . His second daughter Christine Louise Beatrix Browne died at the age of eleven months on February 15, 1910. His younger son was Geoffrey Charles Myles Browne.

Web links

• Geoffrey Browne, 3rd Baron Oranmore and Browne at the Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Geoffrey Henry Browne, 1st Baron Mereworth, on thepeerage.com , accessed July 1, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 32346, HMSO, London, June 4, 1921, p. 4530 ( PDF , accessed July 1, 2016, English).

predecessor	Office	successor
Geoffrey Guthrie-Browne	Baron Oranmore and Browne 1900-1927	Dominick Geoffrey Edward Browne
Geoffrey Guthrie-Browne	Baron Mereworth 1926-1927	Dominick Geoffrey Edward Browne