Richard Brownlow

Richard Brownlow (1553–1638) of Belton in Lincolnshire, was a lawyer who served as Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas.

On 9 October 1591 he was made Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he continued to hold until his death, deriving from it an annual profit of £6,000, with which he purchased the reversion of the manor of Belton, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, with other properties.

He married Katherine Page, daughter of John Page of Wembley, Middlesex, a Master in Chancery[1] and one of the first governors of Harrow School, and by her had three sons and three daughters, including: He died at Enfield on 21 July 1638 in his eighty-sixth year; his bowels were buried in Enfield Church, but his body was buried on 1 August in St Peter and St Paul's Church, Belton, in which survives his monument surmounted by a figure of him in his prothonotary's gown.

[2] A portrait in similar dress is preserved at Belton House, and was engraved by Thomas Cross[3] as frontispiece to his works.

After his death various collections frnm his manuscripts were published, including:

Mural monument to Richard Brownlow (1553–1638), St Peter and St Paul's Church, Belton , with his own arms on top and the arms of his two sons on either sides, all impaling the arms of their respective wives
Arms of Brownlow: Or, an escutcheon within an orle of martlets sable