Valentine Browne, 5th Earl of Kenmare

Valentine Charles Browne, 5th Earl of Kenmare CVO (1 December 1860 – 14 November 1941),

Early life He was the son of Valentine Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare and Gertrude Thynne. His elder sister, Lady Margaret Theodora May Catherine Browne, married Greville Charles Douglas, and his younger brother, Hon. Cecil Augustine Browne, died unmarried. Neither of his siblings had children. and served as such until his succession as Earl of Kenmare in 1905.

As Earl of Kenmare he was a peer of the realm and though he was a Roman Catholic, he was also a unionist, which was uncommon at the time for Roman Catholics. He sat in the House of Lords as a member of the Irish Unionist Alliance. He also was a member of the Senate of Southern Ireland in 1921, but did not attend.

Lord Kenmare took an active part in the military. He was lieutenant-colonel in command of the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers (previously the Kerry Militia) from 1896 to December 1902, when he retired and took over from his father as Honorary Colonel of the regiment. He was also a colonel of the King's Regiment (Liverpool). who married Jessie "Doris" Delevingne, eldest child of Edward Charles Delevingne, and Jessie Marion Homan, in 1928. They divorced in 1938, and he married Enid Maude, Viscountess Furness, widow of Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness, and daughter of Charles Lindeman. Hon. Maurice Henry Dermot Browne (1894–1915), a Lt. in the Coldstream Guards who was killed in action during World War I.

On his death in 1941 aged 80, he was buried in the family vault in Killarney Cathedral. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Valentine.