List of members of the Senate of Northern Ireland explained

This is a list of members of the Senate of Northern Ireland.

Senators

Senators ex officio

Lord Mayor of Belfast

StartNamePartyNotes
20 June 1921Sir William Frederick Coates, Bt.Unionist
27 February 1923Sir William George TurnerUnionist
5 March 1929Sir William Frederick Coates, Bt.Unionist
10 March 1931Sir Crawford McCullagh, Bt.Unionist
22 May 1942George Ruddell BlackUnionistDied 28 December 1942
6 January 1943Sir Crawford McCullagh, Bt.Unionist
12 November 1946Sir William Frederick NeillUnionist
8 November 1949William Ernest George JohnstonUnionist
1 June 1951Sir James Henry NorrittUnionist
12 June 1953Sir Percival BrownUnionist
18 May 1955Robert HarcourtUnionist
29 May 1957Cecil McKeeUnionist
29 May 1959Robin KinahanUnionist
30 May 1961Martin Kelso WallaceUnionist
29 May 1963William JenkinsUnionist
27 May 1966Sir William Duncan GeddisUnionist
29 May 1969Sir Joseph Foster CairnsUnionist
May 1972William ChristieUnionist

Mayor of Londonderry

StartNamePartyNotes
20 June 1921Hugh O'DohertyNationalistDid not take the oath
27 February 1923Maxwell Scott MooreUnionist
13 March 1925John Gilbert MageeUnionist
15 March 1927James HamiltonUnionist
26 February 1929Dudley McCorkellUnionist
10 July 1935James McIlmunn WiltonUnionist
23 May 1939Sir Basil McFarland, Bt.Unionist
28 May 1940Frederick SimmonsUnionist
20 July 1945Sir Basil McFarland, Bt.Unionist
3 May 1950Gerald Stanley GloverUnionist
17 June 1952Samuel OrrUnionist
27 May 1954Samuel Sydney DowdsUnionist
28 May 1957John Gordon ColhounUnionist
30 May 1961Gerald Stanley GloverUnionist
30 May 1963Albert AndersonUnionistResigned 2 May 1968
4 June 1968William BeattyUnionistPost abolished 2 April 1969

Alphabetical index

Name[1] FromToPartyStatus
The 3rd Duke of Abercorn19211922UnionistElected
The 4th Duke of Abercorn19491962UnionistElected
Albert Anderson19631968UnionistMayor of Londonderry
Jack Andrews19641973UnionistElected
Henry Armstrong19211937UnionistElected
Robert Armstrong19561961Unionist[2] Elected
James Bailie19551967UnionistElected
The 6th Viscount Bangor19211950UnionistElected
Harold Barbour19211929UnionistElected
William Barclay19251945Unionist[3] Elected
John Barnhill19621971UnionistElected
Hugh T. Barrie19211922UnionistElected
William Beatty19681969UnionistMayor of Londonderry
David Bill19491956Unionist[4] Elected
George Black19421942UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Samuel Boyd19551962UnionistElected
John Boyle19371950UnionistElected
Charles Bradley19511957Nationalist[5] Elected
Sir Basil Brooke19211922UnionistElected
Percival Brown19531955UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Gerald Browne19421951Unionist[6] Elected
Joseph Cairns19691973UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
William Cameron19691973Unionist[7] Elected
Thomas Joseph Campbell19291934NationalistElected
The 8th Viscount Charlemont19251937UnionistElected
George Anthony Clark19511969UnionistElected
George Smith Clark19251935Unionist[8] Elected
William Clark19461961UnionistElected
William Coates1921; 19241923; 1931UnionistElected/Lord Mayor of Belfast
John Colhoun19571961UnionistMayor of Londonderry
Alec Cooke19611969UnionistElected
Robert Corkey19431965UnionistElected
James Glencairn Cunningham1957; 19671965; 1972UnionistElected
Joseph Cunningham19211965UnionistElected
Samuel Cunningham19211945Independent Unionist
[9] Unionist
Elected
Joseph Davison19351948UnionistElected
James Hill Dickson19211938UnionistElected
Sir Thomas Dixon19241949Unionist[10] Elected
Arthur Frederick Dobbs1929; 19371933; 1955UnionistElected
John Patrick Donaghy19531968Independent
Nationalist[11]
Elected
Robert Dorman19251933Labour (NI)Elected
Samuel Sydney Dowds19541957UnionistMayor of Londonderry
John Cherry Drennan19611973UnionistElected
Hugh Duff19371940UnionistElected
The 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava19211930UnionistElected
Adam Duffin19211924UnionistElected
Nelson Elder19661973UnionistElected
Joseph Fisher19571963UnionistElected
Henry Fleming19451956UnionistElected
William Duncan Geddis19661969UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Archibald Gibson19691973UnionistElected
William Gibson19351942UnionistElected
John Clements Glendinning1922; 19341933; 1946UnionistElected
The 2nd Baron Glentoran19611973UnionistElected
Gerald Stanley Glover19501952UnionistMayor of Londonderry
Alexander Robert Gisborne Gordon19501964UnionistElected
Thomas Greer19211928UnionistElected
Marion Greeves19501969Unionist; IndependentElected
Robert George Grosvenor19641967UnionistElected
James Woods Gyle19331935Independent UnionistElected
James Hamilton19271929UnionistMayor of Londonderry
Robert Harcourt19551957UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Sir Emerson C. Herdman19231949UnionistElected
Wilson Hungerford19481957UnionistElected
William Jenkins19631966UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Sir James Johnston19211924UnionistElected
John Stewart Johnston1958; 19671965; 1973UnionistElected
William Ernest George Johnston19491951UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Norman Kennedy19651973Labour (NI)[12] Elected
Robert Kinahan19591961UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Samuel Kinghan19631973UnionistElected
William Kinghan19401946UnionistElected
Thomas Lavery19301940UnionistElected
Gerry Lennon19441969NationalistElected
James Graham Leslie19211949UnionistElected
The 7th Marquess of Londonderry19211929UnionistElected
John Andrew Long19211941UnionistElected
Louis Lynch19491957Nationalist[13] Elected
Thaddeus Lynch19411949NationalistElected
Thomas McAllister19291950NationalistElected
Robert McBride19341935UnionistElected
David McClelland19671973UnionistElected
Ian McClure19681973UnionistElected
Alexander McConnell19561961UnionistElected
Dudley McCorkell19291935UnionistMayor of Londonderry
John McCormick19471958UnionistElected
Sir Crawford McCullagh1931; 19431942; 1946UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Charles McCullough19681973Unionist; Democratic UnionistElected
William John McDowell19211929UnionistElected
Sir Basil McFarland1939; 19451940; 1950UnionistMayor of Londonderry
Paddy McGill19531973NationalistElected
Daniel McGladdery19571973UnionistElected
John McGlade19581967NationalistElected
John McHugh19291945NationalistElected
Cecil McKee19571959UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Thomas McLaughlin19331944NationalistElected
James McMahon19331936Nationalist[14] Elected
John McNally19501953NationalistElected
John Gilbert Magee19251927UnionistMayor of Londonderry
Joseph Maguire19371951NationalistElected
Patrick Francis Mallon19651973NationalistElected
The 12th Viscount Massereene and Ferrard19211929UnionistElected
Hugh Montgomery19221924UnionistElected
Maxwell Moore19231925UnionistMayor of Londonderry
William James Morgan19691970UnionistElected
Edward Sullivan Murphy19291929UnionistElected
William Frederick Neill19461949UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Thomas Nelson19451949UnionistElected
James Norritt19511953UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Sir Roland Nugent19361961UnionistElected
Hugh O'Doherty19211923NationalistMayor of Londonderry
Paddy O'Hare19491973NationalistElected
Samuel Orr19521954UnionistMayor of Londonderry
Hercules Pakenham19281937UnionistElected
Robert Perceval-Maxwell19211925UnionistElected
Robert Perceval-Maxwell1935; 19411941; 1945UnionistElected
The 1st Viscount Pirrie19211924UnionistElected
James Pollock19541957UnionistElected
John Porter-Porter19211937UnionistElected
Andrew Quigley19291937UnionistElected
Herbert Quin19501968UnionistElected
Henry Richardson19491957UnionistElected
John Hanna Robb19371943UnionistElected
Samuel Rodgers19621970UnionistElected
Arnold Schofield19611969Labour (NI)Elected
Robert Gordon Sharman-Crawford19211934UnionistElected
Frederick Simmons19401945UnionistMayor of Londonderry
Thomas Sinclair19211940UnionistElected
William James Smyth19451950Labour (NI)Elected
William Ernest Stevenson1940; 19451945; 1954UnionistElected
Kennedy Stewart19451955UnionistElected
William Stewart19571973UnionistElected
Edith Taggart19681973UnionistElected
Henry Taylor19381957UnionistElected
William George Turner19231929UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Martin Wallace19611963UnionistLord Mayor of Belfast
Albert Walmsley19571964UnionistElected
George Whaley19411945UnionistElected
Paddy Wilson19691973Republican Labour
Social Democratic and Labour
Elected
William Wilson19681973UnionistElected
Claude Wilton19691973Liberal
Social Democratic and Labour
Elected
James McElmunn Wilton19351939UnionistMayor of Londonderry
William McConnell Wilton19451953Independent UnionistElected
Joseph Andrew Woods19211925UnionistElected

References

  1. http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/hnisen.htm Members of the Northern Ireland Senate, 1921–72
  2. John F. Harbinson, The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882–1973, pp.204–209
  3. "Unionists lose a seat", Irish Times, 22 June 1937
  4. "Northern Senate election", Irish Times, 23 May 1953
  5. Commonwealth Year Book 1956, p.205
  6. "New Northern Senate", Irish Times, 25 August 1945
  7. "Clark loses seat in N.I. Senate", Irish Times, 7 June 1969
  8. "Thirteen Nominations for Twelve Seats", Irish News, 12 June 1929
  9. "Missing Voting Papers", Manchester Guardian, 15 July 1925
  10. "Northern Senate elections: Contest for vacant seats", Irish Times, 14 June 1941
  11. Fergus Pyle, "Morgan nominated for N.I. Senate", Irish Times, 21 May 1969
  12. "Contest for 12 seats in N.I. Senate", Irish Times, 21 May 1965
  13. The Commonwealth Yearbook (1956), p.205
  14. Brian Barton, The Blitz: Belfast in the war years, p.10

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