Geoffrey Browne, 3rd Baron Oranmore and Browne

Who was Geoffrey Browne, 3rd Baron Oranmore and Browne?

Geoffrey Henry Browne, 3rd Baron Oranmore and Browne, 1st Baron Mereworth KP PC, born Geoffrey Henry Browne-Guthrie, was an Irish politician.

Oranmore was the only son of the 2nd Baron Oranmore and Browne and his Scottish wife, Christina. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and succeeded his father to the barony in 1900. Following in his father's footsteps, he was elected an Irish Representative Peer in 1902. In 1906 he dropped the additional surname "Guthrie" which his father had been obliged to adopt in order to succeed to his own father-in-law's estates.

He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for County Mayo and was appointed High Sheriff of Mayo for 1890. He was a member of the Irish Convention in 1917–1918, a commissioner of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland from 1919, and a member of the Senate of Southern Ireland from 1921.

He was appointed Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1918 and was appointed to the Privy Council for Ireland in the 1921 Birthday Honours. In January 1926 he was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as the 1st Baron Mereworth, of Mereworth Castle, although he continued to use his Irish title in preference.