John Hanna Robb was a Northern Irish

Northern Ireland

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 barrister

Barrister

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 and Ulster Unionist Party

Ulster Unionist Party

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 politician.

The son of Rev. J. Gardner Robb, DD, LLD, Robb was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution

Royal Belfast Academical Institution

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, Queen's College, Belfast and called to the Bar at Gray's Inn

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 and King's Inns

King's Inns

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, Dublin in 1898.

He was a Stormont MP for Queen's University from 1921 to 1937, following which he was Leader of the Senate of Northern Ireland

Leader of the Senate of Northern Ireland

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 and Minister for Education until 1943. From 1939 to 1943, he was Father of the Northern Irish Bar. From 1943 until retirement in 1954 he sat as a County Court judge.

Robb lived at Deramore Park, Belfast

Belfast

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with his wife, Emily, and had one daughter.