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 BROWNE 347 was mortally wounded at the siege of Prague, 6 May 1757, and d. there 26 June following, aged 51, leaving behind him "the reputation of a consummate General and an able and successful negotiator." His widow received a pension from the Empress Maria Theresa. IV. 1757 4. Philip George (Browne), Earl of Browne, to ^c. [I.], and Count von Browne, i^c. [H.R.E.], 1803. I St s. and h.,(^) b. 2 June 1727, at Novara, in Italy; a Field Marshal Lieut, in the Imperial service, and a K.M.T. He d. s.p., 19 Dec. 1803, in Bohemia, when all his honours became extinct. BROWNE See "Oranmore and Browne," Barony [I.], cr. 1836. BROWNLOW BARONY. I. Brownlow Cust, s. and h. of the Rt. Hon. Sir John C, Bart., Speaker to the House of Commons (1761 I. 1776. till within a few days of his death, 24 Jan. 1770), by Etheldred, da. and coh. of Thomas Payne, of Hough, CO. Lincoln, was b. 3 Dec. 1744, at Norfolk Str., Strand, in St. Clement Danes, Westm.; ed. at Eton, and at Corpus Coll. Cambridge; M.A. 1766; was M.P. (Tory) for Ilchester 1768-74, and for Grantham 1774-76; C*) was cr. D.C.L. of Oxford 7 July 1773. On 20 May 1776, in consideration of his late father's services,(^) he was cr. BARON BROWNLOW('i) OF BELTON, CO. Lincoln.(^) F.S.A. 13 June 1776; F.R.S. 8 May 1783. He w., istly, 16 Oct. 1770, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Jocosa Katherina, 2nd (=') His yr. brother, Count Josef Ulysses Browne, a Major General in the Austrian service, b. 1728, d. s.p., being killed at the Battle of Hochkirch, 13-14 Oct. 1759. C") He supported the Coalition in 1783. V.Q. {') " Your old friend [Sir John Cust] has been assur'd by order of the K. that if he liv'd he should have the Peerage, and, if not, his son should be created. P.S. Sir John Cust died yesterday at two o'clock." (Letter, 24 Jan. 1770, from Robert Thompson, St. James's Str., to the Rt. Hon. Edward Weston. Hht. MSS. Com., loth Rep., App. I, p. 419). C') His grandmother, the wife of Sir Richard Cust, the 2nd Bart., was Anne, da. of Sir William Brownlow, Bart., sister and h. of John (Brownlow), Viscount Tyrconnel [I.], on whose death s.p., in 1754, the estate of Belton, co. Lincoln, devolved on the Cust family. (■=) This was the 7th of 10 Baronies [U.K.] all cr. on the same day, for a list of which see note sub Thomas, Baron Foley of Kidderminster [1776], and for the more famous case of the 12 Baronies cr. in 17 12, see vol. i, p. 61, note " d," and ante, p. 28, note " b." V.G.