(1840–1906), eldest son of Alexander Brown and grandson of the 1st Baronet. Frederick Richmond Brown (1868–1933) Sir Melville Richmond Brown, 3rd Baronet (1866–1944) Sir Charles Frederick Richmond Brown, 4th Baronet (1902–1995), son Frederick Richmond Brown and grandson of 2nd Baronet. Sir George Francis Richmond Brown, 5th Baronet (born 1938) The Brown Baronetcy, of Richmond Hill in the County Palatine of Lancaster, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 24 January 1863 for the merchant and banker William Brown, of Astrop House, Kings Sutton, Northamptonshire. The baronetcy was conferred in honour of his services to the city of Liverpool. The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1873. The fourth Baronet was a deputy lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire. James Clifton Brown, second son of Alexander Brown, eldest son of the first Baronet, was Member of Parliament for Horsham. He was the father of (1) Howard Clifton Brown, a Brigadier-General in the British Army and Member of Parliament for Newbury, and of (2) Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside, Speaker of the House of Commons. The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Sam George Richmond Brown (born 1979), eldest son of the 5th Baronet. Brown, later Pigott-Brown baronets, of Broome Hall (1903) see Pigott-Brown baronets The Brown, later Pigott-Brown Baronetcy, of Broome Hall in Capel in the County of Surrey, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 5 January 1903 for Alexander Brown, third son of Alexander Brown, eldest son of the first Baronet of Richmond Hill. For more information on this creation, see Pigott-Brown baronets. See also Browne baronets Broun baronets Viscount Ruffside References Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. Baronetcies in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain Baronetcies created with special remainders 1664 establishments in the British Empire