OBITUARY NOTICES. 



Major Alexander Henry Browne. By G. P. Hughes, 

 Middleton Hall, Wooler. 



It is with much regret that we record the death of Major 

 A. H. Browne, J. P., which, in the month of April last, left 

 the county of Northumberland bereaved of one of its most 

 open handed and popular sons. His was a many sided life, 

 interspersed with not a few of the interests and responsi- 

 bilities which usually attach themselves to a man of wealth 

 and large landed estates. 



Descended from an old Northumbrian family, and from 

 parents who commanded the esteem of a wide circle of the 

 social elements of that county, Major Browne, after finishing 

 his course at the University of Cambridge, soon found 

 himself a leading figure in the north of his county. 



A large fortune having been left to him by a maternal 

 relative, he quickly settled to country pursuits, and to the 

 military training of the county militia, in which his father, 

 brothers, and son were valued officers. It was at this early 

 period of his career, when most men are struggling with 

 the initiatory difficulties of their profession, that Major 

 Browne, by the free exercise of his wealth, through com- 

 petent agents, became the owner of a Shorthorn herd of 

 cattle, the success of which, in the leading Show yards of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, has placed his name high in 

 the category of the improvers and exhibitors of that famous 

 breed of stock. Guided by Mr John Chrisp, a member of 

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