Sir Valentine Browne, 1st Baronet, of Molahiffe (died 1633), owned a large estate in south-west Ireland and was a lawyer who served as high sheriff of County Kerry.
He was the eldest son of Nicholas Browne and his wife Sheela O'Sullivan Beare.
[1] His paternal grandfather, another Valentine Browne, had come from Croft, and had acquired large estates in Munster, Ireland as surveyor-general.
Browne studied law and was admitted to Gray's Inn on 12 March 1612.
Sir Valentine married secondly Julia MacCarty, daughter of Charles MacCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry.