Brown Baronets

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There have been five creations of baronets with the surname Brown (as distinct from Browne and Broun), one of which is extant.

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[edit] Brown of Barbados, West Indies (21 September 1664)

Created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia

  • Sir James Brown, 1st Baronet died c.1670

Extinct on his death

[edit] Brown of London (14 December 1699)

Created in the Baronetage of England

  • Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet died c.1720
  • Sir John Brown, 2nd Baronet died c.1738
  • Sir _____ Brown, 3rd Baronet died c.1760

Presumably extinct on his death

[edit] Brown of Edinburgh, Midlothian (24 February 1710)

Created in the Baronetage of Great Britain

  • Sir Robert Brown, 1st Baronet died 1720

Presumably extinct on his death

[edit] Brown of Westminster, London (11 March 1732)

Created in the Baronetage of Great Britain

  • Sir Robert Brown, 1st Baronet died 5 October 1760; MP for Ilchester 1734-47
  • Sir James O'Hara Brown, 2nd Baronet died 21 April 1784
  • Sir William Augustus Brown, 3rd Baronet died 20 October 1830

Extinct on his death

[edit] Brown of Astrop, Northants (24 January 1863)

Created in the Baronetage of United Kingdom

  • Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet born 30 May 1784 died 3 March 1864; MP for Lancashire South 1846-59
  • Sir William Richmond Brown, 2nd Baronet born 16 Jan 1840 died 10 May 1906
  • Sir Melville Richmond Brown, 3rd Baronet born 13 Oct 1866 died 20 Feb 1944
  • Sir Charles Frederick Richmond Brown, 4th Baronet born 6 Dec 1902 died 9 July 1995
  • Sir George Francis Richmond Brown, 5th Baronet born 3 Feb 1938

Alexander Hargreaves Brown, third son of Alexander Brown, eldest son of the first Baronet, was created a Baronet in his own right in 1903 (see Pigott-Brown Baronets).

[edit] Brown, later Pigott-Brown Baronets, of Broome Hall (1903)

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