He was appointed a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon in 1895.
[2] Browne was admitted an advocate of the Ceylon Supreme Court in 1872.
[4] By 1876 he owned an Irish estate of 703 acres (284 ha) at Raheens in County Mayo, a townland of Islandeady.
[2] He became a Justice of the Peace in County Mayo, and resided on his estate.
They had three sons and a daughter, of whom the eldest, Dodwell Browne, graduated M.B.