George_Browne,_6th_Marquess_of_Sligo

George Browne, 6th Marquess of Sligo

George Browne, 6th Marquess of Sligo

Irish peer and captain (1856–1935)


George Ulick Browne, 6th Marquess of Sligo and 4th Earl of Clanricarde (1 September 1856 – 26 February 1935), styled Earl of Altamont until 1913, was an Irish peer.[1]

Portrait by Philip de László, 1916

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George was the eldest son of Henry Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo, and his wife Catherine Henrietta Dicken. He was born in Munger, British India. He succeeded to the marquessate in February 1913, aged 56, on the death of his father. He married Agatha Stewart Hodgson, daughter of James Stewart Hodgson, on 12 October 1887. They had three daughters and one son:

Upon the 1916 death of Hubert de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde, the Marquess of Sligo also became Earl of Clanricarde.[3] In 1921 he attended the first meeting of the short-lived Senate of Southern Ireland.[4] In 1922 he was photographed by Walter Stoneman.[5]

Andrias sligoi

In 1924 when visiting British Hong Kong, the Marquess of Sligo succeeded in getting a specimen of the South China giant salamander sent to London Zoo. The species was named Megalobatrachus sligoi in his honour; it is today called Andrias sligoi.[6] He died in 1935 in London.[7]


References

  1. McGarry, Fearghal (21 January 2016). The Rising (New Edition): Ireland: Easter 1916. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-104625-4 via Google Books.
  2. Browne, George Ulick (13 July 1989). "View from Album of watercolours and drawings". hdl:2262/25988. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (22 April 2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. ISBN 9781907807442 via Google Books.
  4. "A History of Burke in Ireland". Jim Burke via Google Books.

Further reading

  • Burke's Irish Family Records, Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, ed., 1976, p. 38.
  • The Complete Peerage, volume XIV, 1998, p. 502.
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