Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu


Anthony-Maria Browne was an English peer during the Tudor and Stuart period.
He was born in 1574, the son of Anthony Browne, eldest son of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, and Mary Dormer. He became the Second Viscount Montagu at the age of 18 on the death of his grandfather in 1592, from whom he inherited an estate worth between £3600 and £5400 per annum.
In 1591 Browne married Jane Sackville, daughter of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, and by her had issue:
Anthony-Maria Browne was arrested in connection with the Gunpowder Plot and spent about a year in the Tower of London.
He wrote a book on how to manage a nobleman's household entitled "A Booke of Orders and Rules".
He died on 23 October 1629 and is buried in Midhurst Church.

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