The Honorable James Browne (1736/8 – 22 October 1790) was an Irish Member of Parliament and Law Officer.
[1] He was born in County Mayo, fourth son of John Browne, 1st Earl of Altamont and Anne Gore, daughter of Sir Arthur Gore, 2nd Baronet and Elizabeth Annesley.
[3] He was dismissed following the change of Government in 1782, but was reappointed in 1784 when a promotion to the Bench left the office open.
[4] Hart suggests that he was a failure as Prime Serjeant, but adds that the office itself was by the 1780s an anachronism.
The office of Prime Serjeant was abolished in 1805 following the death of Arthur Browne.