Arthur Browne, 8th Marquess of Sligo

Colonel Arthur Howe Browne, 8th Marquess of Sligo, KBE, CB (8 May 1867 – 28 May 1951), styled Arthur Howe Browne until 1903 and Lord Arthur Browne between 1903 and 1941, was an Irish soldier and peer.

Life and career Browne was the third son of Henry Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo, and Catherine Henrietta Dicken, daughter of William Stephens Dicken. He was educated at Windlesham House School from 1877 to 1880 and thereafter at Clifton College.

In 1903 his father succeeded an elder brother as Marquess, and he received the courtesy style, Lord Arthur Browne. Late in his life in 1941, he himself succeeded to the marquessate on the early death of his nephew. He was promoted to lieutenant on 30 December 1891 and served as a transport officer in the Tirah Campaign 1897–1898, following which he was promoted to captain on 27 August 1898. He served with the 1st Battalion of his regiment in South Africa during the Second Boer War. At the end of the war in 1902, he went with the battalion to India. More than 520 officers and men left Cape Town on the SS Lake Manitoba in September 1902, arriving at Bombay the following month. He was then stationed at Multan in Punjab. He received his majority in 1907 and served in the Great War as a colonel on the staff of the Directorate of Intelligence at the War Office.

A 2021 report commented that his response showed "what he may have considered foresight, but one that was explicitly framed by contemporary racial prejudice". orders = The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire - Knight Commander (KBE)