Robert Dillon Browne

{{Short description|Irish politician}}

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Mayo

|term_start = 6 May 1836

|term_end = 1 July 1850

|predecessor = William Brabazon
Dominick Browne

|successor = George Henry Moore
George Gore Ousley Higgins

|alongside = William Brabazon (18361840)
Mark Blake (18401846)
Joseph Myles McDonnell (18461847)
George Henry Moore (1847–1850)

|birth_date = 1811

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|nationality = Irish

|party = Repeal Association

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Robert Dillon Browne (1811 – 1 July 1850){{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "M" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons2.htm|website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=25 August 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903033741/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons2.htm|archivedate=3 September 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=23 June 2018 }} was an Irish Repeal Association politician.

Browne was born in County Mayo and educated at Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860 George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p105: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935

Browne was elected Repeal Association MP for Mayo at a by-election in 1836—caused by the elevation of Dominick Browne to a Peerage—and held the seat until his death in 1850.{{cite book|editor1-last=Walker|editor1-first=B.M.|title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922|date=1978|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|location=Dublin|isbn=0901714127}}

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