Valentine Edward Charles Browne, 6th Earl of Kenmare (29 May 1891 – 20 September 1943), styled Viscount Castlerosse from 1905 to 1941, was the Earl of Kenmare and the son of Valentine Browne, 5th Earl of Kenmare.
Lord Castlerosse, an Anglo-Irish nobleman, served in the First World War as a captain in the Irish Guards and was severely wounded. He returned to London and entered the banking business for a period but soon became a journalist, best known for his widely read 'Londoner's Log'. He was a journalist for the Sunday Express, and a director of the Evening Standard, the Daily Express and the Sunday Express,[1] and great friend of their publisher, Lord Beaverbrook.[2] After he became a regular columnist for the Sunday Express in April 1926, his "witty but unmalicious commentary" on contemporary public life made him "the most celebrated gossip columnist in the British press" of his time.[3] He also wrote the screenplay for the 1932 film comedy Diamond Cut Diamond and the story for the 1942 film about Amy Johnson, They Flew Alone.[4]
He was active in Killarney affairs, creating a lakeside golf course and supporting Killarney Races.[5]
- ^ "Valentine Edward Charles Browne, 6th Earl of Kenmare". The Peerage. 16 January 2013.
- ^ Kidd 1988
- ^ Baron, Wendy and Shone, Richard, eds. (1992). Sickert: Paintings: [catalogue ... on the occasion of the exhibition 'Sickert: paintings', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 20 November 1992–14 February 1993 ...]. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 322. ISBN 0-300-05373-8
- ^ IMDb: Viscount Castlerosse (1891–1943) Retrieved 6 January 2013
- ^ "Obituaries". Ireland Rock. Retrieved 9 April 2011.