John Browne, 6th Baron Kilmaine

John Francis Archibald Browne, 6th Baron Kilmaine, CBE (22 September 1902 – 26 July 1978) was an Anglo-Irish hereditary peer and building conservationist.

Biography Browne was the son of John Browne and Lady Aline Kennedy, the daughter of the Marquess of Ailsa. He was educated at Winchester and Magdalen College, Oxford. For the duration of the Second World War he served in the Royal Army Service Corps attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and was twice mentioned in despatches.

In 1945, Browne became Secretary of the Pilgrim Trust. Kilmaine then acted as trustee of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust which was founded following the publication of the Church Assembly's report The Preservation of Our churches. In 1949 he was made chairman of the Oxford Society and served in this capacity until 1973. In 1956 he was appointed a CBE for his services to the nation. In his other roles as public servant he was a Vice-President of the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, as well as a Trustee of the Dulverton Trust. He also served as the High Steward of Harwich from 1966 to 1976.