Valentine Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare
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The Right Honourable The Earl of Kenmare KP PC |
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| Lord Chamberlain of the Household | |
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In office 3 May 1880 – 9 June 1885 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | William Gladstone |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Lathom |
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In office 10 February 1886 – 20 July 1886 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | William Gladstone |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Lathom |
| Succeeded by | The Earl of Lathom |
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| Born | 16 May 1825 |
| Died | 9 February 1905 (aged 79) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Gertrude Thynne (d. 1913) |
Valentine Augustus Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare KP, PC (16 May 1825 – 9 February 1905), styled Viscount Castlerosse from 1853 to 1871, was a British courtier and Liberal politician. He held office in every Whig or Liberal administration between 1856 and 1886, notably as Lord Chamberlain of the Household under William Gladstone between 1880 and 1885 and in 1886.
Browne was the son of Thomas Browne, 3rd Earl of Kenmare, by his wife Catherine O'Callaghan, daughter of Edmund O'Callaghan, of Kilgory, County Clare. He became known by the courtesy title Viscount Castlerosse when his father succeeded in the earldom of Kenmare in 1853. The Kenmare estate which Browne inheritated from his father amounted, in the 1870s, to over 117,000 acres, predominantly in County Kerry.
In 1872, the 4th Earl of Kenmare decided to build an Elizabethan-Revival manor house, called Killarney House, on a hillside with spectacular views of Lough Leane. The cost was well over £100,000. This house was the replacement for Kenmare House, built in 1726, as the seat of the Earls of Kenmare. The old house was demolished.
Lord Castlerosse was appointed High Sheriff of Kerry for 1851. The following year he was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Kerry. In 1856 he was appointed Comptroller of the Household under Lord Palmerston, a post he held until the government fell in 1858.
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