Earl of Kenmare
(1789-1871)
11 February 1861

Volume 2, page 200, sitting number 2092.

Born on 15 January 1789, Sir Thomas Browne was the son of Sir Valentine Browne, 1st Earl of Kenmare and his wife, Mary Aylmer. In 1822 he married Catherine O'Callaghan, daughter of Edmund O'Callaghan.

He succeeded his older brother in 1853, becoming the 3rd Earl of Kenmare.

Lord Kenmare died on 26 December 1871.

An obituary appeared in the London Evening Standard on 28 December 1871. 'Thomas Browne, third Earl of Kenmare, was born on the 15th of January, 1789, and had consequently  completed the eighty-third year of his age. In 1822 he married Catherine, daughter and co-heiress of Edmund O'Callaghan, Esq., of Killegory, county Clare, who died in 1854. By this lady he had issue, his eldest son being Valentine Augustus, Viscount Castlerosse, P.C., M.P., Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of County Kerry, who was born on the 17th of May, 1825, and married in 1858 Gertrude Harriet, only daughter of Lord Charles Thynne. The late earl had been a captain in the army, and although not engaged at Waterloo, he distinguished himself with his regiment (the 40th) in the Peninsula, and received the war medal with eight clasps. The noble earl had for many years retired into strictly private life, and given over the possession and management of his large estates to his eldest son, who was honoured by the visit of her Majesty and the Prince Consort to Kenmare House, Killarney, in the August of 1861' (London Evening Standard, 28 December 1871).