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Colonel John Browne (1638–1711), built the first Westport House on the site of the O'Malley castle of Cahernamart. [1] He married Maud Bourke, daughter of Theobald Bourke, 3rd Viscount Mayo and the great-great-granddaughter of Grace O'Malley. [1] He was a Roman Catholic who fought on the Jacobite side in the War of the Two Kings. At that time ...
John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont (c. 1709 – 4 July 1776), styled Lord Mount Eagle between 1760 and 1768 and Viscount Westport between 1768 and 1771, was an Irish peer and politician. He began the building of Westport House and the town of Westport .
Browne served as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Mayo in Ireland from 1857 to 1868. He had previously served as an officer of the Royal Navy. In 1896, Browne became Marquess of Sligo on the death of his elder brother, the 3rd Marquess, also inheriting some 114,900 acres (465 km 2) of land and the family seat at Westport House, Westport ...
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 titles of Baron Mount Eagle, of Westport in the County of Mayo (created 10 September 1760), Viscount Westport, of Westport in the County of Mayo (created 24 August 1768), Earl of Altamont, in the County of Mayo (created 4 December 1771), Earl of ...
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.
John was born in Westport House in 1824. Harriet was born in Paris in 1827. Emily Charlotte was born in Westport House in 1829. A son Henry Ulick was born in March 1831. A son Richard was born in Jamaica in August 1834. Hester Georgina was born in July 1837 and Augusta in August 1838. Their last child Marianne was born in 1839.
Statue of Gráinne Mhaol in Westport House. Westport House in County Mayo, Ireland, was the seat of the Browne dynasty, Marquesses of Sligo, direct descendants of Grace O'Malley. The current house was built close to the site of Cahernamart (Cathair na Mart – "fort of the beef market"), an Ó Máille fort
The intention of John Browne, later the First Earl of Altamont to move the existing Cahernamart settlement to facilitate the landscaping of parklands around Westport House was outlined to Richard Pococke when he visited Browne in 1752. [3] John Browne, the First Earl of Altamont and Founder of the modern Westport House and the town of Westport