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    Marquess of Sligo is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for John Browne, 3rd Earl of Altamont. The Marquess holds the subsidiary...
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    extant and held by the Marquess of Sligo since 1916. Clanricarde (or Lord of Clanricarde) was a Gaelic title meaning "(head of) Richard's family" (also...
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  • list of the 34 present and extant marquesses in the peerages of the Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Ireland...
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    Westport House (category Historic house museums in the Republic of Ireland)
    Ireland, is a Georgian country house, historically the family seat of the Marquess of Sligo and the Brownes. The house was designed by the architect Richard...
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  • 11th Marquess of Sligo (4 June 1939 – 13 July 2014), styled Earl of Altamont until 1991, was an Irish hereditary peer and businessman. On the death of his...
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    Howe Peter Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo KP PC PC (Ire) (18 May 1788, London – 26 January 1845, Tunbridge Wells), was an Anglo-Irish peer and colonial...
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    George Ulick Browne, 6th Marquess of Sligo and 4th Earl of Clanricarde (1 September 1856 – 26 February 1935), styled Earl of Altamont until 1913, was...
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  • century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron. As of 2016, there were 135 titles in the Peerage of Ireland extant:...
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    1st Marquess of Sligo, KP, PC (Ire) (11 June 1756 – 2 January 1809) was an Anglo-Irish peer, absentee slaveholder and politician, and was the son of Peter...
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    5th Marquess of Sligo (14 March 1831 – 24 February 1913), styled Lord Henry Browne until 1903, was an Irish peer. Browne was the fourth son of Howe Browne...
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    Altamount (later 1st Marquess of Sligo), John Denis Browne of Westport, to house Catholic refugees who fled sectarian conflict in the north of Ireland. Originally...
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  • Terence Morris Browne, 9th Marquess of Sligo (28 September 1873 – 28 July 1952), styled Terence Morris Browne until 1951, was an Irish peer who succeeded...
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  • Browne, 10th Marquess of Sligo (13 December 1908 – 11 September 1991), known as Denis Browne until 1952, was an Irish peer. Browne was the son of Captain Lord...
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    Marquess of Sligo (31 January 1820 – 30 August 1896), styled Earl of Altamont until 1845, was an Irish peer. The son of Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo...
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    Colonel Arthur Howe Browne, 8th Marquess of Sligo, KBE (8 May 1867 – 28 May 1951), styled Arthur Howe Browne until 1903 and Lord Arthur Browne between...
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  • member of the North Carolina House of Representatives Terry W. Brown (1950–2014), member of the Mississippi Senate Terence Browne, 9th Marquess of Sligo (1873–1952)...
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  • Irish politician John Browne, 1st Marquess of Sligo (1756–1809), Irish peer and politician John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont (c. 1709–1776), Irish peer...
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    also appears as a supporter in the arms of the Marquess of Sligo. The Earl of Talbot and Shrewsbury coat of arms was used on Talbot cars manufactured...
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    Ulick de Burgh Browne, 7th Marquess of Sligo (30 March 1898 – 7 January 1941) styled Earl of Altamont until his father's death in 1935, was a British...
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  • John Thomas Browne, 4th Marquess of Sligo (10 September 1824 – 30 December 1903), styled Lord John Browne until 1868, was an Irish politician and naval...
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    John Howson (priest) (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
    tutor at Cambridge to the Marquess of Sligo and the Marquess of Lorne. In 1845 Howson, having taken orders, accepted the post of senior classical master...
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    Baron Kilmaine (category Baronies in the Peerage of Ireland)
    members of the Browne family have been elevated to the peerage. John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont (the grandfather of John Browne, 1st Marquess of Sligo), was...
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  • Baron Monteagle (category Abeyant baronies in the Peerage of England)
    the County of Mayo. He was later created Earl of Altamont and is the ancestor of the Marquesses of Sligo. The third creation, in the Peerage of the United...
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  • in her biography of his opponent, the Governor, The Second Marquess of Sligo states that he was completely opposed to the abolition of slavery. However...
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    Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne (category Daughters of British marquesses)
    granddaughter of William Forsyth QC. On 30 December 1903, her grandfather, Lord Henry Ulick Browne, succeeded his elder brother as 5th Marquess of Sligo. Her father...
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    Westport, County Mayo (category Planned communities in the Republic of Ireland)
    appeal was launched which announced that the Marquess of Sligo had donated by the Marquess of Sligo (the present location on Newport Road. The first plans...
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    was the 2nd and last Marquess. The Earldom of Clanricarde (second creation) passed by special remainder to the 6th Marquess of Sligo. This family, which...
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  • inherited a 800-acre farm, the huge Westport House and the title of Marquess of Sligo. This was not expected as his elder brother inherited the family...
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    Grace O'Malley (category People of Elizabethan Ireland)
    of Conroys and MacAnallys than a shipload of gold). Westport House in County Mayo, Ireland, was the seat of the Browne dynasty, Marquesses of Sligo,...
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    (1865–1953), British general and father of 'Rat Pack' actor Peter Lawford Arthur Browne, 8th Marquess of Sligo, KBE (1867–1951), Irish peer, soldier and...
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