Arthur Browne, 8th Marquess of Sligo

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 1903 and 1941, was an Irish soldier and peer.

Life and career

Browne was the third son of Henry Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo, and Catherine Henrietta Dicken, daughter of William Stephens Dicken.[1]

In 1903 his father succeeded an elder brother as Marquess, and he received the courtesy style Lord Arthur Browne. Late in his life in 1941 he himself succeeded to the marquessate on the early death of his nephew.[1]

Browne was on 8 June 1889 commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, a regiment of the British Army. He was promoted to lieutenant on 30 December 1891, and served as a Transport officer in the Tirah Campaign 1897-1898, following which he was promoted to captain on 27 August 1898.[2] He served with the 1st Battalion of his regiment in South Africa during the Second Boer war. Following the end of the war in 1902, he went with the battalion to India. More than 520 officers and men left Cape Town on the SS Lake Manitoba in September 1902, arriving at Bombay the following month and was then stationed at Multan in Punjab.[3]

Family

Lord Sligo married Lillian Whiteside Chapman, daughter of Charles Chapman, on 18 November 1910. He died in May 1951, aged 84, and was succeeded by his younger brother, Lord Terence Browne.[1]

Lord Sligo's funeral was described by his nephew, the 10th Marquess:

"..on election day ... his coffin, draped in a Union Jack, was carried though the gates into Westport town. The chief undertaker, a respected local builder, had been a general in the Old IRA. No one thought the flag sinister or a joke in poor taste. Indeed it was hardly remarked upon. The Eighth Marquess believed in God, the British Empire and Westport in that order ... and for him there was nothing incongruous about the trio."

References

  1. 1 2 3 thepeerage.com Arthur Howe Browne, 8th Marquess of Sligo
  2. ↑ Hart′s Army list, 1903
  3. ↑ "The Army in South Africa - Troops returning home". The Times (36884). London. 27 September 1902. p. 10.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Ulick de Burgh Browne		 Marquess of Sligo
1941–1951		 Succeeded by
Terence Morris Browne
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