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 346 BROUNCKER RoDWAY. He d. s.p., at Sheen Abbey, 4, and was bur. 10 Jan. 1687/8, at Richmond, Surrey,(^) aged about 60, when his Peerage became extinct. Will pr. 16 Feb. 1688. BROWNE EARLDOM. I. George Browne, a noted Jacobite exile, was 2nd s. of George B.,('') a Jacobite officer in the Spanish I. 1726. service (who was lost at sea), by Mary, da. of ( — ) RowE, of Hacketstown, co. Waterford; entered the Imperial Army, in which service he became Col. of an Infantry Reg., Lieut. Gen., and Counseller of War, and by letters patent dated at Vienna, 13 Mar. 171 6, was cr., by the Emperor Charles VI for his military ser- vices, a Count and Baron of the Holy Roman Empire as Count VON Browne and Baron of Camus and Mountany for himself and his br. Ulysses and their descendants. On 12 Apr. 1726 he was cr., by the titular King James III and VllI, BARON (— ), VISCOUNT OF (— ), and EARL OF [.? BROWNE] [I.] with a spec, rem., failing heirs male of his body, to his yr. brother, Ulysses Browne, and the heirs male of his body. He d. s.p.,(^) 11 Oct. 1729, at Paris. II. 1729. 2. Ulysses (Browne), Earl of Browne [I.], and Count von Browne [H.R.E.], yr. br. and h. male, b. 24 Aug. 1659; a General in the Imperial service and a Commandant of the 2nd Landshut, was cr., with his elder br., a Count and Baron of the Empire by the Emperor Charles VI, 13 Mar. 1716. He d. Sep. 1 73 1, at Frankfort-on-Main, aged 72. III. 1 73 1. 3- Ulysses Maximilian (Browne), Earl of Browne [I.] and Count von Browne [H.R.E.], only s. and h., b. 23 Oct. 1705, at Basle; a P.C. ; K.G.F., and Field Marshal in the Imperial service, and one of the most celebrated soldiers of his day. He w., 15 Aug. 1726, Maria Philippine, da. of Georg Adam, Ignaz, Count of Martinic, by his 2nd wife, Maria Josepha, da. of Adolf Vratislav, Count of Sternberg, sometime Viceroy of Naples. He if) He appears among the absentees in a list of peers present in, and absent from the Pari. [I.] of James II, 7 May 1689 (for which see vol. iii, Appendix D), so his death and the consequent extinction of the title cannot then have been generally known in Ireland. V.G. (^) This George was s. of Ulysses (Ulick) Browne, a yr. s. of William Browne of Camus. {^) In The Jacobite Peerage, (p. 23) following previous accounts, he is made father of the famous Russian Field Marshal, George, ist Count von Browne [H.R.E. 1779], h. 15 June 1698, son of George Browne, of Camus.