Robert Dillon Browne Explained

Robert Dillon Browne
Office:Member of Parliament
for
Term Start:6 May 1836
Term End:1 July 1850
Predecessor:William Brabazon
Dominick Browne
Successor:George Henry Moore
George Gore Ousley Higgins
Alongside:William Brabazon (1836–1840)
Mark Blake (1840–1846)
Joseph Myles McDonnell (1846–1847)
George Henry Moore (1847–1850)
Birth Date:1811
Nationality:Irish
Party:Repeal Association

Robert Dillon Browne (1811 – 1 July 1850)[1] was an Irish Repeal Association politician.

Browne was born in County Mayo and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[2] Browne was elected Repeal Association MP for at a by-election in 1836—caused by the elevation of Dominick Browne to a Peerage—and held the seat until his death in 1850.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rayment . Leigh . The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "M" . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page . 25 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20180903033741/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons2.htm. 3 September 2018 . usurped . 23 June 2018 .
  2. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860 George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p105: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  3. Book: Walker. B.M.. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922. 1978. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin. 0901714127.