The Honorable James Browne (1736/8 – 22 October 1790) was an Irish Member of Parliament and Law Officer. He sat in the House of Commons of Ireland from 1768 to 1790.[1]
He entered Middle Temple in 1755 and was called to the Bar in 1760.[3] He was advanced to the rank of Prime Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) in 1780.[3] He was dismissed following the change of Government in 1782, but was reappointed in 1784 when a promotion to the Bench left the office open. He was dismissed a second time in 1787.[3]He died unmarried in 1790.[4]
Hart suggests that he was a failure as Prime Serjeant, but adds that the office itself was by the 1780s an anachronism.[5] Although in theory, the Prime Serjeant was still the Government's most senior legal advisor, in practice the Attorney General of Ireland had for over a century had precedence over the Serjeants. The office of Prime Serjeant was abolished in 1805 following the death of Arthur Browne.[6]
He was an MP for Jamestown from 1768 to 1776, for Tuam from 1776 to 1783, and for Castlebar from 1783 to 1790.[1]
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^ ab"Biographies of Members of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800: Browne, James". Ulster Historical Foundation. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
^Burke's Peerage 107th Edition Delaware 2003 Vol.3 p. 3649
^ abcHart, A. R. A History of the King's Serjeants-at-law in Ireland Dublin Four Courts Press 2000 p.165
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