Arthur Brownlow
Arthur Chamberlain Brownlow (20 March 1645 – 27 March 1711) was an
He was the son of Patrick Chamberlain of County Louth, and Letitia (Lettice) Brownlow, eldest daughter of Sir William Brownlow (1591–1661), a High Sheriff of Armagh and his wife Eleanor O'Doherty (or O'Dougherty), daughter of the Irish rebel leader, Sir Cahir O'Doherty. He took his grandfather's family name as a condition of inheriting his estate.
He was educated at Trinity College Dublin.[1] Like his grandfather, Brownlow was appointed High Sheriff of Armagh for 1668 and 1669, and represented County Armagh in the Irish House of Commons between 1689 and 1711.[2] Brownlow was one of only six Protestant members to sit in the short-lived Patriot Parliament called by James II of England in 1689; he was cleared of any wrongdoing during the Irish Parliament of 1692.[3]
He married Jane Hartstonge, daughter of
References
- Sadleir, T.U. p144: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- ^ E. M. Johnston-Liik, MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800 (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.74 (Retrieved 26 February 2016).
- ^ O'Hart, John, The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689, Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 22 February 2023.