New-York tribune., 1907-11-15
SOME TITLED SUICIDES.

Lord hilnaine. who has Just committed suicide
ny hurhns himself from fourth story window Of
the hotel at which he was staying in Paris. is
the head Of the house Of Browne which Of Eng
Hsh origin has been settled in Ireland since the
reign OF Queen Elizabeth one of the iunior
orahches OF which is the Marquis OF Sligo One
OF us members ey-tke-bye. Lord Terence Browne
Formerly an assistant superintendent of the BEN
Eal ponce ana son Of the present Marquis OF
Sligo has just arrived in America where he nro
poses II make stay Of several months Lord
1AIlhla-he Is succeeded in his honors by his SON.
-lS non John Browne. who becomes fifth
<oFo hAIfnelne, and who is married to Lady AiIIne
Kennedy, daughter OF the MARQUIS OF AiIss
lie oarony Of Kilmaine dates from l7SS and i,s
sLaH' was mace the subject Of bitter attack by
9eilFy Grattan who insisted that the peerages Of
FAiinlalne' OF GlentwoTth and C1oncurry were sold
Tor hard cash by the government OF the dav and
ehe money thus obtained used In bribing members
- 'he Duolin House Of Commons. with the Oh
Se0' u bringing ABOUT the union In fact Graf
tah on February 90 $780, moved In the Irish House
OF commons that select committee be appointed
10 inquire into the matter Lecky the historian
likewise refers to the affair as an actual fact II
Is heediess TO add that in pursuance family ira
o4'ons the late Lord Kinnaire was and his son
Is bitter opponent OF Home Rule
lie Lords kimaine, who hold large estates &,
ireland their holdings in Westmeath alone extend
H-s over an area of fifteen thousand acres claim
one oi the earliest baronetcies created It is one OF
tlose Nova Scotia baronetcIes which were granted
~ connection with Sir Walter Aiexander,s scheme
,or me colonization Of Nova Scotia and the grantee
oa which received on payment Of q sum OF $4,000
we patent, along with grant OF land in Nova
Scotia' which he undertook 10 settle coIonize and
develop. As have often related in these letters
these Nova Scotia baronetcies were distributed IN
very tndiscriniinate by Sir Walter Alexander
who had received them signed by the sovereign
with the names OF the grantees left In blank No
definite record has remained existence of the
names of the recipients. and in a nurne2r of in
stances it is known that the agreement in the
grantee failed 10 make the necessary payment or
else he neglected TO take possession of, colonize
and develop the land going with his baronetcy
IN Nova Scotia. There seems to have been some
thing Of this kind IN connection with the baronctcy
OF the Lords of Kilmaine for, although the patent
bears the date Of 1856. it never enrolled. the
sixteen thousand of land in Nova Scotia were
never 'seized' and neither the grantee nor any Of
lis descendants ventured to assume the baronetcy
untl considerably over a hundred years afterward-
IN fact, the close of the eighteenth century
when it was assumed by the elder brother of the
first Lord Kilmaine. who styled himself the sixth
beronet of his line.
Lord Kilmaine's suicids serves to call attention
rare IN the British peeraee among the most nota-
be cases having been those OF the late Duke OF
Bedford in 1881. Of the late Earl of shafteebury
"hO blew ou; his brains I'm hanson cab ir Recent
street. George. Lord Ivttelton: Of the sixth Fari
fe n War;. Lord Cloncurry Lord Conrieton head
q the ParneU family: Lord C1reavea Lord French
and the celebrated Marquis Of Londonderry. Wis
count Forth also. only Of The late Fari If
Perth. found the courage to kill himself in 1871.
although he had been forced TO quit the army for
cowardce under fire in the Crimeap War.