Kingsbury
Browne Dies
Architect of the Land Trust Alliance
Kingsbury
Browne, an attorney and influential conservationist who inspired
the founding of the Land Trust Alliance, died Friday, Nov. 11
at age 82 from pneumonia. Browne is known among open space advocates
as a visionary leader of the modern land trust movement in the
United States. He was retired and living in Kennebunkport, Maine.
A native of
Brookline, MA, Browne retired as a partner at the Boston law
firm of Hill & Barlow
in 1991. During a sabbatical from the firm in 1980, he visited
a number of land trusts around the country while a Fellow at
the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and a Visiting Scholar at
Harvard Law School. He
recognized the need for a national association serving land trusts
and spearheaded the formation of the Land Trust Exchange in 1982.
The Exchange subsequently became the Land Trust Alliance. The Alliance
is dedicated to preserving open space and provides expert assistance
and resources to more than 1,500 local and regional land trusts
nationally.
Browne served for many years as general counsel to the Alliance.
He was editor and chairman of the organization's Conservation Tax
Program. He was also a member of the Advisory Council of The Trust
for Public Land, a national, non-profit land conservation organization.
A specialist
in tax law, Browne provided tax counseling to many national and
regional environmental organizations and government agencies
involved in open space preservation. Before joining Hill & Barlow,
Browne was a tax partner at the firm of Peabody, Kaufman and Brewer
and an associate at the Boston law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart.
A World War II veteran, Browne served in the Army Air Corps on
Tinian in the Marianas Islands and Luzon where he commanded the
19th Aerial Photographic Laboratory Bombardment Group and received
two Distinguished Unit Citations.
Browne was
an avid outdoorsman and for some 27 summers he and his friend
H. King Cummings of Skowhegan, Maine traveled by float plane
to Baffin Island, Hudson Bay and Northern Labrador for archeological
exploration and outdoor sport.
Additional Professional
Achievements:
- Taught
law courses at Northeastern, Suffolk and Boston University
Law Schools
- Member of
the Executive Committee of the Federal Tax Institute of New England
Additional Civic
Achievements:
- Former
Chairman of the Brookline Council for Planning and Renewal
- Aide
to former Gov. Robert Bradford of Massachusetts
Additional Trusteeships:
- Plimouth
Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Member, Board
of Overseers Visiting Committee, Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology, Harvard University (1977-1983)
- Member of
the Executive Committee, The Winsor School, Boston
- Trustee, Garland
Junior College
- Member
Children’s Zoo Committee of the
Boston Zoological Society
Boards of Directors:
- Sugarloaf
Mountain Corporation of Maine
- Miramichi
Salmon Association of New Brunswick, Canada
Personal History:
- Born
Nov. 18, 1922 in Brookline Massachusetts
- Son of Kingsbury
Browne of Auburndale, Mass. and Sophie Reiter Acheson of Pittsburgh,
Penn.
- Attended Milton
Academy preparatory high school
- Graduated
cum laude from Harvard College in the wartime class of 1944
- Received
his L.L.B. degree Harvard Law School 1950
Survivors:
In addition to his wife Annette Upson, Mr. Browne is survived by
three daughters; Annette of Fort Myers, Florida; Juliet T. of Portland,
Maine; and Gabriella R. of North Andover, Massachusetts; and three
sons, Kingsbury the Third of Golden Colorado; Mark A. of Mexico
City; and Christopher U. of Fairfax, Virginia; a brother David
of Plympton, Massachusetts; and six grand children.
Funeral
Arrangements:
- Funeral
arrangements: Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer Street, Kennebunk,
Maine 04043; phone: 207-985-2752
- A
funeral service is planned for 11 am Wednesday, Nov. 16 at St. David’s
Episcopal Church, Route 1, Kennebunk, Maine.
- Donations
in lieu of flowers may be made to your local
Land Trust, or to the “Land Trust Alliance” (Donate
to Land Trust Alliance).
posted 11/14/05
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