Henry Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo

Monochrome photograph of Lord Sligo
Lord Sligo wearing coronation robes and coronet of a marquess, 1911

Henry Ulick Browne, 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, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, and Lady Hester Catherine de Burgh, daughter of John de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde. He succeeded to the marquessate in December 1903, aged 72, on the death of his unmarried elder brother. He married Catherine Henrietta Dicken, daughter of William Stephens Dicken, on 25 October 1855. They had ten children:

The 5th Marquess is buried to the north-east of the main chapel at Kensal Green Cemetery in London.[4]

References

  1. ^ Lord Alfred Eden Browne at Find a Grave.
  2. ^ Lord Alfred Eden Browne at Commonwealth War Graves Commission records.
  3. ^ Lt-Col H.W. Wiebkin, A Short History of the 39th (Deptford) Divisional Artillery, 1915–1918, London: Berryman, 1923/Uckfield: Royal Artillery Museum and Naval & Military Press, 2004, ISBN 1-845740-82-3, pp. 30, 34.
  4. ^ Paths of Glory. Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery. 1997. p. 90.
  • Burke's Irish Family Records, Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, ed., 1976, p. 38.
  • The Complete Peerage, volume XIV, 1998, p. 502.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Marquess of Sligo
1903–1913 		Succeeded by