Samuel Lombard Brown

Samuel Lombard Brown (10 January 1856 – 14 December 1939) was an Irish politician and barrister.

He studied at University College Cork (UCC), graduating MA, and at King's Inns. He was elected at a by-election on 12 December 1923, replacing Horace Plunkett, but lost his seat at the 1925 Seanad election. He was re-elected at a by-election on 10 February 1926, replacing Windham Wyndham-Quin. He was re-elected at the 1934 Seanad election and served until the Free State Seanad was abolished in 1936.

A member of the largely ex-unionist independent group in the Seanad, Brown was a supporter of Cumann na nGaedheal and raised funds for the party. As president of the Irish Society for the Protection of Birds, he introduced a bill for the protection of wild birds in 1927. Although initially rejected by the Dáil, it was passed two years later in a considerably enlarged form.

Brown accepted appointment as regius professor of laws (1934–1939) at TCD. He never married, and died on 14 December 1939 at his home, in Merrion Square, Dublin.