Earl of Kenmare

The title of Earl of Kenmare was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1801. It became extinct upon the death of the 7th Earl in 1952.

All of the Earls bore the subsidiary titles of "Viscount Castlerosse" (1801), "Viscount Kenmare" (1798), and "Baron Castlerosse" (1798) in the Peerage of Ireland. The 2nd Earl was created "Baron Kenmare" in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1841, but this title became extinct upon his death. His brother and successor, the third earl, was again created Baron Kenmare in the Peerage of the UK in 1856, and this title survived until the extinction of the earldom in 1952.

The Browne Line

*Sir Valentine Browne, Knight (d. 1589)
*Sir Nicholas Browne (d. 12 December 1606cite book
editor = George Edward Cokayne
title = The Complete Baronetage
year = ca. 1900 reprinted 1983
publisher = Alan Sutton Publishing
location = Gloucester
pages = i:227]

Baronets Browne of Molahiffe, County Kerry (1622)

*Sir Valentine Browne, 1st Baronet (d. 7 September 1633) ["Ibid", i:236]
*Sir Valentine Browne, 2nd Baronet (d. 25 April 1640) ["Ibid", i:237]

Viscounts Kenmare, Barons Castlerosse (1689)

The Third Baronet Browne was created First Viscount Kenmare (Ireland) on 20 May 1689, by King James II, after his disposition by the English Parliament, but while he still possessed his rights as King of Ireland. The peerage remained on the Irish patent roll in a constitutionally ambiguous position, but was not formally recognized by the Protestant political establishment.cite book
publisher = Oxford University Press
year = 2004
editor = H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison
title = The Dictionary of National Biography
chapter = "Browne, Thomas, fourth Viscount Kenmare"
location = Oxford
id = ISBN 0-19-861411-X]
*Sir Valentine Browne, 1st Viscount Kenmare, 3rd Baronet (1638 – 1694) [cite book
editor = George Edward Cokayne
title = The Complete Baronetage
year = ca. 1900 reprinted 1983
publisher = Alan Sutton Publishing
location = Gloucester
pages = i:237]
*Sir Nicholas Browne, 2nd Viscount Kenmare, 4th Baronet (d. April 1720)"Idem"]
*Sir Valentine Browne, 3rd Viscount Kenmare, 5th Baronet (March 1695– 30 June 1736) ["Ibid", i:238]
*Sir Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, 6th Baronet (1726 – 9 September 1795)

Earls of Kenmare (1801)

The Seventh Baronet Browne was created First Baron Castlerosse and First Viscount Kenmare on 12 February 1798, with the earlier peerages not being recognised. He was created First Earl of Kenmare on 3 January 1801.
*Valentine Browne, 1st Earl of Kenmare (January 1754 – 1812)
*Valentine Browne, 2nd Earl of Kenmare (1788 – 1853), son of the 1st Earl, m. Augusta Anne Wilmot, 2nd daughter of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart.
*Thomas Browne, 3rd Earl of Kenmare (1789 – 1871), brother of the 2nd Earl, m. Catherine O'Callaghan
*Valentine Augustus Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare (1825 – 1905), son of the 3rd Earl, m. Gertrude-Harriet Thynne, only daughter of Lord Charles Thynne, son of the 2nd Marquis of Bath
*Valentine Charles Browne, 5th Earl of Kenmare (1860 – 1941)
*Valentine Edward Charles Browne, 6th Earl of Kenmare (1891 – 1943)
*Gerald Ralph Desmond Browne, 7th Earl of Kenmare (1896 – 1952)

Notes

External links

* [http://thepeerage.com/p18428.htm#i184279 Valentine Browne and his descendants]