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unusual facts about Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet


William Brownlow

Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet (1665–1701), British Member of Parliament for Peterborough and Bishop's Castle


Digby Mackworth Dolben

His father, William Harcourt Isham Mackworth (1806—1872), a younger son of Sir Digby Mackworth, the 3rd Baronet, took the additional surname Dolben after he married Frances, the heiress of Sir John English Dolben, the 4th Baronet.

Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet

Brownlow died in March 1701, aged only 35, and was succeeded by his son from his first marriage John Brownlow, who in 1718 was raised to the peerage as Viscount Tyrconnel.

(Col. Brett married Dorothy's sister Anna, the notorious divorced Countess of Macclesfield).


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