MPs elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1921
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This is a list of Members of Parliament elected in the Northern Ireland general election, 1921.
All members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the Northern Ireland general election, 1921 are listed. Only Unionist members took their seats.
Sir James Craig, (later Viscount Craigavon) became Prime Minister. MPs from both Sinn Fein and the Nationalist Party abstained from taking their seats in the House.
All members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the Northern Ireland general election, 1921 are listed. Only Unionist members took their seats.
Sir James Craig, (later Viscount Craigavon) became Prime Minister. MPs from both Sinn Fein and the Nationalist Party abstained from taking their seats in the House.
Members
Name | Constituency | Party |
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Milne Barbour Milne Barbour Sir John Milne Barbour, 1st Baronet JP, DL was a Northern Irish politician and baronet. As a member of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland he was styled The Right Honourable Sir Milne Barbour.-Background and education:... |
Antrim Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Antrim was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned seven MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
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... |
Maj. Hon. Robert William O'Neill Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan Robert William Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan PC , known as Sir Hugh O'Neill, Bt, from 1929 to 1953, was an Ulster Unionist member of both the UK Parliament and the Parliament of Northern Ireland.... |
Antrim Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Antrim was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned seven MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
George Boyle Hanna | Antrim Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Antrim was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned seven MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Robert Crawford | Antrim Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Antrim was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned seven MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Robert Megaw | Antrim Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Antrim was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned seven MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
John Fawcett Gordon John Fawcett Gordon John Fawcett Gordon PC was a politician in Northern Ireland.He was educated at Falls River School, Massachusetts, United States. He was manager of flax camps and a member of Belfast Corporation from 1920-23... |
Antrim Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Antrim was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned seven MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Joseph Devlin Joseph Devlin Joseph Devlin, also known as Joe Devlin, was an Irish journalist and influential nationalist politician... |
Antrim Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Antrim was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned seven MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Nationalist Party Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) The Nationalist Party† - was the continuation of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and was formed after partition, by the Northern Ireland-based members of the IPP.... |
Richard Best Richard Best (judge) Richard Best PC KC was an Irish barrister, politician and Lord Justice of Appeal.Best was born in Richhill, County Armagh. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was called to the bar by the King's Inns, Dublin in 1895. He took silk in 1912 and was elected a bencher in 1918... |
Armagh | Unionist Party |
Michael Collins Michael Collins (Irish leader) Michael "Mick" Collins was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance and Teachta Dála for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. Subsequently, he was both Chairman of the... |
Armagh | 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... |
Maj. David Shillington | Armagh | Unionist Party |
John Dillon Nugent John Dillon Nugent John Dillon Nugent was an Irish nationalist politician, insurance representative and company director. He was born at Keady, County Armagh in 1869 and educated at National Schools there. He married in 1896 and with his wife Mary had three sons and three daughters.He was the national secretary of... |
Armagh | Nationalist Party Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) The Nationalist Party† - was the continuation of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and was formed after partition, by the Northern Ireland-based members of the IPP.... |
Sir Dawson Bates Dawson Bates Sir Richard Dawson Bates, 1st Baronet, OBE, PC, JP, DL , also known as Sir Dawson Bates , was an Ulster Unionist Party member of the Northern Ireland House of Commons.... |
East Belfast Belfast East (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Belfast East was a borough constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.- Boundaries :... |
Unionist Party |
Capt. Herbert Dixon Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran OBE PC was a Northern Ireland Unionist politician.He was born in Belfast, the fourth son of Sir Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet, and educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, being commissioned into the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, with which regiment he served in the Second... |
East Belfast Belfast East (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Belfast East was a borough constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.- Boundaries :... |
Unionist Party |
Thompson Donald Thompson Donald Thompson Donald was a Northern Irish Unionist politician.Donald was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in the 1918 general election for the Belfast Victoria constituency and served as MP until the constituency's abolition in 1922. Donald was elected as one of the so-called... |
East Belfast Belfast East (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Belfast East was a borough constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.- Boundaries :... |
Unionist Party |
James Augustine Duff James Augustine Duff James Augustine Duff was a Scottish-born Northern Irish businessman and Ulster Unionist Party politician.... |
East Belfast Belfast East (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Belfast East was a borough constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.- Boundaries :... |
Unionist Party |
Lloyd Campbell | North Belfast | Unionist Party |
Samuel McGuffin Samuel McGuffin Samuel McGuffin was Labour Unionist MP for Belfast Shankill from 1918 to 1922, and Ulster Unionist MP for Belfast North from 1921 to 1925.... |
North Belfast | Unionist Party |
William Grant | North Belfast | Unionist Party |
Robert McKeown | North Belfast | Unionist Party |
Thomas Moles Thomas Moles Thomas Moles was an Ulster Unionist politician. Born in Belfast, Ireland in 1871, he was educated at the Collegiate School, Ballymena.... |
South Belfast | Unionist Party |
Hugh Pollock Hugh Pollock Hugh MacDowell Pollock PC , was an Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 until his death in 1937.... |
South Belfast | Unionist Party |
Sir Crawford McCullagh Crawford McCullagh Sir Crawford McCullagh, 1st Baronet was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.McCullagh was the director of several businesses in Belfast, including Maguire and Patterson, a dry goods firm , and the Classic Cinema at Castle Place, as well as owning McCullagh and Co., a silk mercers, milliners... |
South Belfast | Unionist Party |
Julia McMordie Julia McMordie Julia McMordie CBE was an Ulster Unionist Party politician.McMordie was the daughter of shipbuilder Sir William Gray, of Hartlepool, County Durham. A Presbyterian, she was educated at Chislehurst, Kent... |
South Belfast | Unionist Party |
Thomas Henry Burn Thomas Henry Burn Thomas Henry Burn was an Ulster Unionist member of the UK Parliament and the Parliament of Northern Ireland. He represented Belfast St Anne's in the former from 1918–1922, and Belfast West in the latter from 1921-1929.... |
West Belfast Belfast West (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Belfast West was a borough constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Robert Lynn Robert Lynn Sir Robert John Lynn was an Ulster Unionist Party politician.He was elected at the Member of Parliament for Belfast Woodvale from 1918 general election to 1922, and when that constituency was abolished for the 1922 general election he was returned for Belfast West, holding the seat until he stood... |
West Belfast Belfast West (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Belfast West was a borough constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
William Twaddell William Twaddell William John Twaddell was a Unionist politician from Belfast.Twaddell was a draper from Belfast who was educated at a Belfast primary school.... |
West Belfast Belfast West (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Belfast West was a borough constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Joseph Devlin Joseph Devlin Joseph Devlin, also known as Joe Devlin, was an Irish journalist and influential nationalist politician... |
West Belfast Belfast West (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Belfast West was a borough constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Nationalist Party Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) The Nationalist Party† - was the continuation of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and was formed after partition, by the Northern Ireland-based members of the IPP.... |
Sir James Craig James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, PC, PC , was a prominent Irish unionist politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland... , Bt |
Down Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Down was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Éamon de Valera Éamon de Valera Éamon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth century Ireland, serving as head of government of the Irish Free State and head of government and head of state of Ireland... |
Down Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Down was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Sinn Féin |
J. M. Andrews | Down Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Down was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Thomas Lavery Thomas Lavery Thomas Lavery was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Lavery worked as a director of a hemstitching company. He was elected as an Ulster Unionist Party member of Down County Council, and also served as Deputy Lieutenant of County Down... |
Down Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Down was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Capt. Hon. Harry Mulholland Sir Henry Mulholland, 1st Baronet Sir Henry George Hill Mulholland, 1st Baronet PC , was a Northern Ireland politician.Mulholland was the third son of Henry Lyle Mulholland, 2nd Baron Dunleath, and Norah Louisa Fanny Ward... |
Down Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Down was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Robert McBride Robert McBride (politician) Robert McBride was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.McBride worked as a farmer, and with textiles. He was also a lay preacher with the Church of Ireland. He joined the Ulster Unionist Party and was elected in Down at the Northern Ireland general election, 1921. He held the seat in... |
Down Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Down was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Thomas McMullan | Down Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Down was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Patrick O'Neill Patrick O'Neill (politician) Patrick O'Neill was an Irish nationalist politician and hotel proprietor. At the Northern Ireland general election, 1921, O'Neill was elected for the Down constituency. He took his seat on 9 March 1926. He was re-elected at Northern Ireland general election, 1925 for Down... |
Down Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Down was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Nationalist Party Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) The Nationalist Party† - was the continuation of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and was formed after partition, by the Northern Ireland-based members of the IPP.... |
Arthur Griffith Arthur Griffith Arthur Griffith was the founder and third leader of Sinn Féin. He served as President of Dáil Éireann from January to August 1922, and was head of the Irish delegation at the negotiations in London that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.-Early life:... |
Fermanagh and Tyrone Fermanagh and Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Fermanagh and Tyrone was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Sinn Féin |
Edward Archdale | Fermanagh and Tyrone Fermanagh and Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Fermanagh and Tyrone was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
William Coote | Fermanagh and Tyrone Fermanagh and Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Fermanagh and Tyrone was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Seán Milroy Seán Milroy Seán Milroy was an Irish politician. He was born in Maryport in Cumberland. He was a journalist by profession.He contested a by-election for Sinn Féin in Tyrone North East unsuccessfully. He was elected a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála at the 1921 elections for both the Cavan constituency and for the... |
Fermanagh and Tyrone Fermanagh and Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Fermanagh and Tyrone was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Sinn Féin |
William Thomas Miller | Fermanagh and Tyrone Fermanagh and Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Fermanagh and Tyrone was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
James Cooper | Fermanagh and Tyrone Fermanagh and Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Fermanagh and Tyrone was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Seán O'Mahony Seán O'Mahony Seán O'Μahony was an Irish Sinn Féin politician and member of the First and Second Dáil.He was born in Thomastown, County Kilkenny. A successful businessman he was a tea merchant and a commercial traveller. His company, John O'Mahoney & Co., was located on Middle Abbey St., and was destroyed... |
Fermanagh and Tyrone Fermanagh and Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Fermanagh and Tyrone was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Sinn Féin |
Thomas Harbison Thomas Harbison Thomas Harbison was an Irish nationalist politician.After growing up in Cookstown, Harbison studied at St Malachy's College in Belfast. He became active in the Irish Parliamentry Party, acting from 1906 until 1910 as the election agent for William Redmond and Tom Kettle... |
Fermanagh and Tyrone Fermanagh and Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Fermanagh and Tyrone was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned eight MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Nationalist Party Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) The Nationalist Party† - was the continuation of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and was formed after partition, by the Northern Ireland-based members of the IPP.... |
Sir Robert Anderson | Londonderry Londonderry (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Londonderry was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned five MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
Eoin MacNeill Eoin MacNeill Eoin MacNeill was an Irish scholar, nationalist, revolutionary and politician. MacNeill is regarded as the father of the modern study of early Irish medieval history. He was a co-founder of the Gaelic League, to preserve Irish language and culture, going on to establish the Irish Volunteers... |
Londonderry Londonderry (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Londonderry was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned five MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Sinn Féin |
Dehra Chichester Dehra Parker Dame Dehra S. Parker, GBE, PC was the longest serving woman MP in the Northern Ireland House of Commons.-Family life:... |
Londonderry Londonderry (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Londonderry was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned five MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
John Martin Mark | Londonderry Londonderry (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Londonderry was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned five MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Unionist Party |
George Leeke George Leeke George Leeke was an Irish nationalist politician.Leeke owned a hotel and fishery. He was elected to Londonderry County Council for the Nationalist Party. At the Northern Ireland general election, 1921, Leeke was elected in the Londonderry seat, although he did not take his seat until 1926... |
Londonderry Londonderry (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Londonderry was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned five MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:... |
Nationalist Party Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) The Nationalist Party† - was the continuation of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and was formed after partition, by the Northern Ireland-based members of the IPP.... |
Dr John Campbell | Queen's University of Belfast Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Queen's University of Belfast was a university constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 until 1969. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation... |
Unionist Party |
Prof. Robert Johnstone | Queen's University of Belfast Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Queen's University of Belfast was a university constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 until 1969. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation... |
Unionist Party |
John Hanna Robb John Hanna Robb John Hanna Robb was a Northern Irish barrister and Ulster Unionist Party politician.The son of Rev. J. Gardner Robb, DD, LLD, Robb was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen's College, Belfast and called to the Bar at Gray's Inn and King's Inns, Dublin in 1898.He was a Stormont MP... |
Queen's University of Belfast Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Queen's University of Belfast was a university constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 until 1969. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation... |
Unionist Party |
Dr Hugh Morrison | Queen's University of Belfast Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) Queen's University of Belfast was a university constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 until 1969. It returned four MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation... |
Unionist Party |