Richard Brownlow
Richard Brownlow (1553–1638) of Belton in Lincolnshire, was a lawyer who served as Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas. Origins. 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 and one of the first governors of Harrow School, and by her had three sons and three daughters, including: Death and burial. He died at Enfield on 21 July 1638 in his eighty-sixth year; his  bowels were buried in Enfield Church, but his body was buried on 1 August in Belton Church, in which survives his monument surmounted by a figure of him in his prothonotary's gown. A portrait in similar dress is preserved at Belton House, and was engraved by Thomas Cross as frontispiece to his works. His will is dated 1 January 1637–8, and was proved 8 August 1638 by his two sons. Works. After his death various collections frnm his manuscripts were published, including: