Background
Browne was the third son of Henry Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo, and Catherine Henrietta Dicken, daughter of William Stephens Dicken.
Browne was the third son of Henry Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo, and Catherine Henrietta Dicken, daughter of William Stephens Dicken.
He was a colonel in the Royal Munster Fusiliers regiment of the British Army. Lord Sligo married Lillian Whiteside Chapman, daughter of Charles Chapman, on 18 November 1910. ".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 Ireland Republican Army. Number 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.".
