George Browne, 8th Viscount Montagu
- George Browne, 8th Viscount Montagu
George Samuel Browne, 8th Viscount Montagu (June 26, 1769 – October 1793), was an English nobleman.
While travelling in Europe with his friend Charles Sedley Burdett, the two became obstinately determined to ride a fishing boat over the Rhine Falls, despite the warnings of the local inhabitants, none of whom could be hired or persuaded to help them. They died in the attempt, and he was succeeded in the viscountcy by a distant cousin, a clergyman.
In the same week that the unfortunate Viscount met his death, the family home of Cowdray House was destroyed by fire; a circumstance which provided the foundation for a factitious legend of a "curse of fire and water" upon the Browne family for having received Battle Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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