John Browne, 1st Marquess of Sligo

The Most Honourable
John Browne, 1st Marquess of Sligo
KP PC (Ire)
Representative peer for Ireland
In office
1800–1809
Member of the Parliament of Ireland
In office
1776–1780

John Denis Browne, 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 Browne, 2nd Earl of Altamont, and his wife Elizabeth, née Kelly, heiress and daughter of Denis Kelly, Chief Justice of Jamaica. Peter's marriage to Elizabeth led to the family inheriting the Kelly's slave plantations in Jamaica.[1]

Browne was styled Viscount Westport from 1771 to 1780 and known as John Browne, 3rd Earl of Altamont from 1780 to 1800. Browne represented Jamestown in the Irish House of Commons from 1776 to 1780, when he succeeded as Earl of Altamont. He served as High Sheriff of Mayo for 1779. He became Marquess of Sligo on 29 December 1800 and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 5 August 1800.[2] He died on 2 June 1809 in Lisbon, Portugal.[3]

  1. ^ "Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slavery".
  2. ^ Rayment, Leigh. "Knights of the Order of St Patrick". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Brownes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).