John William Ellison-Macartney (1818 – 13 February 1904), born John William Ellison, was an Irish barrister and Conservative

Irish Conservative Party

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 politician. From 1874 to 1885 he was Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

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, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Ellison-Macartney was called to the bar in 1846, and to the Irish Bar in 1848. In 1870 he was High Sheriff

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 of County Armagh

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Ellison-Macartney first stood for Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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 at the Tyrone by-election

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 in 1873 after the death of Henry T. Lowry-Corry. He narrowly lost that contest (by 3103 votes to 3139) to his sole opponent, the Conservative Henry W. Lowry-Corry (a nephew of the deceased MP); the Liberals had not fielded a candidate in Tyrone since 1852. At the 1874 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1874

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, Tyrone's two seats were contested by three Conservatives, and Ellison-Macartney topped the poll by a wide margin, unseating the sitting MP Lord Claud Hamilton. He was re-elected in 1880

United Kingdom general election, 1880

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, and held the seat until the Redistribution of Seats Act

Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

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 divided the Tyrone constituency into four new single-member divisions for the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

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. He did not stand again.

Family

Born John William Ellison, he changed the family surname to Ellison-Macartney in 1859, probably as a condition of an inheritance from a maternal uncle.

His son William

William Ellison-Macartney

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 (1852–1924) was MP for South Antrim

South Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1885 to 1903, a founder of the Irish Unionist Party

Irish Unionist Party

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, Governor of Tasmania from 1913 to 1917, and Governor of Western Australia

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 from 1917 to 1920.

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