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Dominick Geoffrey Edward Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 2nd Baron Mereworth (21 October 1901 – 7 August 2002) was the longest sitting British peer and legislator. ==Biography == Born the Hon. Dominick Geoffrey Edward Browne in 1901, the eldest son of the 3rd Lord Oranmore and Browne and Lady Olwen Verena Ponsonby, daughter of Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford before joining the Grenadier Guards. In 1927 he succeeded his father, who died in a car accident in Southborough, Kent, and took his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Mereworth, a UK peerage (the older barony of Oranmore and Browne, in the Irish peerage, did not entitle its bearer to a seat in the Lords), although he primarily used his Irish title. He had the rare distinction of sitting in the House of Lords for 72 years, the longest by any peer, and during that time was one of the few peers to have never spoken in the House. In 1930 the English residence of the Browne family, Mereworth Castle, was sold and he went to live in his Irish residence, Castle MacGarrett, in County Mayo. Castle MacGarrett, its and 150 employees gave him the chance to breed race horses and farm on a large scale. Lord Oranmore was also an aviator.〔(Christopher Wood )〕 In 1939, Oranmore and Browne tried to join the British Army, but he was told that, at 38, he would be more useful concentrating on farming; as a result his war service was in neutral Ireland with the Irish reserve force, Local Defence Force, in Co Mayo. In the early 1950s the castle was acquired by the Irish government's Irish Land Commission and turned into a nursing home. Lord Oranmore and Browne went to live in London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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