John Browne, 7th Baron Kilmaine

John David Henry Browne, 7th Baron Kilmaine (2 April 1948 – 12 January 2013) was an Anglo-Irish hereditary peer and businessman.[1][2]

Browne was the son of John Francis Archibald Browne, 6th Baron Kilmaine and his wife Whilhelmina Phyllis Arnott.[3] He was educated at Eton College and was the director of Fusion (Bickenhill) Ltd between 1964 and 1996 and later the director of Whale Tankers Ltd (1974 and 2001).[4][5]

His widow, Linda, Lady Kilmaine, is a former High Sheriff of Warwickshire.

For five years he served as a Trustee of Glasallt Fawr Camphill Centre near Landovery in Wales.[6] In his will he left a legacy to allow for the construction of a state-of-the-art accommodation block to house five individuals with learning disabilities at the site.[7] His son and successor (the 8th Baron) also resides at a Camphill community in South Wales.[8]

Following his death on 12 January 2013, his son John Francis Sandford Browne, 8th Baron Kilmaine succeeded him.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Local Lynx 89 - April/May 2013 by Robert Metcalfe - Issuu". issuu.com. 2013-03-27. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
  2. ^ Dod, Robert Phipps (1846). The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for ...: Including All the Titled Classes. Whittaker.
  3. ^ "Browne, John Francis Archibald, sixth Baron Kilmaine (1902–1978), trust administrator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30865. Retrieved 2024-01-28. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ Morris, Susan (2020-04-20). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019. eBook Partnership. ISBN 978-1-9997670-5-1.
  5. ^ European Water and Sewage. Fuel & Metallurgical Journals Limited. 1977.
  6. ^ Metcalfe, Rob (2013). "Lord Kilmaine (1948-2013)". Local Lynx. No. #89 (April/May). Morston: Century Printing. p. 22. Archived from the original on 16 April 2024. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  7. ^ Bennet, Andrea (2018). "New House at Gasalt Fawr". Camphill Pages. No. #26 (Spring/Summer). Ambleside: Association of Camphill Communities UK and Ireland. p. 4. Archived from the original on 16 April 2024. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  8. ^ "The high ideals of a Sheriff". Solihull News net. Archived from the original on 2013-02-23. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  9. ^ "European Heraldry :: House of Browne". europeanheraldry.org. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Baron Kilmaine
1978 – 2013 		Succeeded by