Peter Browne, 2nd Earl of Altamont

Peter Browne, 2nd Earl of Altamont (c. 1731 - 28 December 1780) was an Irish landowner and MP.

He was the son of John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont, and Anne Gore. He married Elizabeth Kelly, the only child of Denis Kelly, on 16 April 1752.[1] Den(n)is Kelly was Chief Justice of Jamaica and the Brownes inherited the Jamaican sugar plantations as well as Lisduff estate and Spring Garden estate, both in the civil parish of Tynagh, Barony of Leitrim (County Galway). The townland of Lisduff exceeds 264 acres while the townland of Spring Garden exceeds 275 acres.[2] The Lisduff estate was acquired from Denis Kelly's brother, Edmond Kelly. The estate was enlarged by land purchases in the townland of Drumatober (also in the Barony of Leitrim, Abbeygormacan civil parish) and Garrancarf in 1749, and of the lands of Cormickoge from John Burke in 1750.[3] He adopted the additional surname of Kelly.

He was elected Member of Parliament for Mayo in the Parliament of Ireland for 1761 to 1768.[4]

Issue
gollark: Scarier possibility: what if the people voting for them DO care, a lot, and genuinely think that the people they vote for have better policy or something?
gollark: According to random vaguely plausible things on the internet, our strong reactions to politics are derived from the situation during human evolution, when humans were in small tribes and you could directly affect things and they could strongly and directly affect *you*.
gollark: In local ones you can do more, but nobody cares about those.
gollark: You can vote, but in widescale elections you have a very low chance of shifting the outcomes.
gollark: I mean, you can't substantially affect it.

References
  1. Lodge, John, "The peerage of Ireland: or, A genealogical history of the present nobility of that Kingdom", Volume 3, p 275, Dublin, 1789.
  2. "Ordnance Survey Ireland, historical mpas, Lisduff townland". Archived from the original on 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2011-04-28.
  3. Landed estates.
  4. "Biographies of Members of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800". Ulster Historical Foundation. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by
Paul Annesley Gore
James Cuffe		 Member of Parliament for Mayo
1761 – 1768
With: Sir Charles Bingham, 7th Bt		 Succeeded by
Sir Charles Bingham, 7th Bt
James Cuffe II
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
John Browne		 Earl of Altamont
1776 – 1780		 Succeeded by
John Browne
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