Richard Brownlow
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Richard Brownlow (1553–1638) of Belton in Lincolnshire, was a lawyer who served as Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas.
He was born on 2 April 1553 and was baptised on 12 April at St. Andrew's Church, Holborn in the City of London. He was the son of John Brownlow of High Holborn, by his wife, a daughter of Sir John Zouch of Stoughton Grange in Leicestershire. A street in Holborn bears the name Brownlow Street.
Career
In 1583 he entered the Inner Temple and was Treasurer of that society in 1606. On 9 October 1591 he was made Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he continued to hold until his death, deriving from it an annual profit of £6,000, with which he purchased the reversion of the manor of Belton, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, with other properties.
Marriage
He married Katherine Page, daughter of John Page of Wembley, Middlesex, a Master in Chancery[1] and one of the first governors of Harrow School, and by her had three sons and three daughters, including:
- Sir John Brownlow, 1st Baronet (c. 1594–1679) of Belton, eldest son and heir, who on 26 July 1641 was created a baronet "of Belton in the County of Lincoln". Died without children when his baronetcy became extinct.
- Sir William Brownlow, 1st Baronet (c. 1595–1666) of Humby, Lincolnshire, who on 27 July 1641, one day after his brother's baronetcy, was also created a baronet, "of Humby in the County of Lincoln". In 1718 his great-grandson John Brownlow, 5th Baronet (1690–1754) was created Viscount Tyrconnel, in the Peerage of Ireland, whose sister and heiress in her issue Anne Brownlow married Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Baronet (1680–1734) and was the mother of Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet (1718–1770), Speaker of the House of Commons, whose son in 1776 was created Baron Brownlow, the ancestor of Earl Brownlow.
