Charles Fausset Falls was a unionist politician

Politician

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 in Northern Ireland

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Falls studied on HMS Conway

HMS Conway (school ship)

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and then at Trinity College, Dublin

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, then managed the family estate, at Fallsbrook, County Tyrone

County Tyrone

Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as Lough Foyle, and comprised part of modern day County Londonderry east of the River Foyle. The majority of County Londonderry was carved out of Tyrone between 1610-1620 when that land went to the Guilds of London to set up profit making schemes based on...

. During World War I

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, he served as a major in the Inniskilling Fusiliers.

Falls stood unsuccessfully for the Ulster Unionist Party

Ulster Unionist Party

The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...

 (UUP) in Fermanagh and Tyrone

Fermanagh and Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

Fermanagh and Tyrone was a Parliamentary Constituency in Northern Ireland which was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

 at the 1923 UK general election, being defeated by two Nationalist Party

Nationalist Party (Ireland)

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 candidates. At the 1924 election, the Nationalist Party did not stand, and Falls was elected alongside fellow UUP member James Pringle

James Pringle

James Alexander Pringle KC was a barrister and Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.James Pringle was the son of Henry Pringle, of Clonbay House, Clones, Co. Monaghan, Irleand. He was admitted, firstly as a solicitor in 1900, and was then called to the Bar of Ireland at King's Inns, Dublin...

, easily beating two Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

members. Falls did not stand in 1929, when two Nationalist Party members gained the constituency unopposed.

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