Geoffrey Henry Browne, 3rd Baron Oranmore and Browne, 1st Baron Mereworth KP PC(Ire) (6 January 1861–30 June 1927), born Geoffrey Henry Browne-Guthrie, was an Irish

Ireland

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 politician.

Oranmore was the only son of the 2nd Baron Oranmore and Browne and his Scottish

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 wife, Christina (née Guthrie). He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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 and succeeded his father to the barony

Baron Oranmore and Browne

Baron Oranmore and Browne, of Carrabrowne Castle in the County of Galway and of Castle Macgarrett in the County of Mayo, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1836 for Dominick Browne, who had earlier represented County Mayo in the House of Commons. His son, the second Baron, sat...

 in 1900. Following in his father's footsteps, he was elected an Irish Representative Peer in 1902. He was a member of the Irish Convention

Irish Convention

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 in 1917–1918, a commissioner of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland

Congested Districts Board for Ireland

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 from 1919, and a member of the Senate of Southern Ireland from 1921.

He was appointed Knight of the Order of St Patrick (KP) 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

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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 as the 1st Baron Mereworth, of Mereworth Castle

Mereworth Castle

Mereworth Castle is a grade I listed Palladian country house in Mereworth, Kent, England.Originally the site of a fortified manor licensed in 1332, the present building is not actually a castle, but was built in the 1720s as an almost exact copy of Palladio's Villa Rotunda. It was designed in 1723...

 (his seat in Kent

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), although he continued to use his Irish title in preference.