List of members of the Senate of Northern Ireland explained

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

Elected Senators

TermSenatorsTermSenators
1921–1929Henry Armstrong (Unionist)Harold Barbour (Unionist)Sir Basil Brooke (Unionist); resigned March 1922Joseph Cunningham (Unionist)Sir James Johnston (Unionist); died 13 April 1924James Graham Leslie (Unionist)Marquess of Londonderry (Unionist)William John McDowell (Unionist)Viscount Pirrie (Unionist); died 7 June 1924John Porter-Porter (Unionist)Thomas Sinclair (Unionist)Joseph Andrew Woods (Unionist) died 6 October 19251921–1925Duke of Abercorn (Unionist); disqualified 12 December 1922Viscount Bangor (Unionist)Hugh T. Barrie (Unionist); died 18 April 1922Samuel Cunningham (Independent Unionist)James Hill Dickson (Unionist)Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (Unionist)Adam Duffin (Unionist); died 13 March 1924Thomas Greer (Unionist)John Andrew Long (Unionist)Viscount Massereene and Ferrard (Unionist)Robert Perceval-Maxwell (Unionist)Robert Sharman-Crawford (Unionist)
Sir Emerson Herdman (Unionist) from 16 June 1923John Clements Glendinning (Unionist) from 30 June 1922Sir Thomas Dixon, Bt. (Unionist) from 24 April 1924
Hugh Montgomery 12 April 1922 – 8 October 1924 (deceased); Viscount Charlemont (Unionist) from 14 May 1925Sir William Coates, Bt. (Unionist) 23 May 1924 – March 1929 (resigned); Edward Sullivan Murphy (Unionist) from 22 March 1929Sir George Clark, Bt. (Unionist) from 14 May 1925William Barclay (Unionist) from 10 November 19251925–1933Sir Emerson Herdman (Unionist)Viscount Bangor (Unionist)John Clements Glendinning (Unionist)Samuel Cunningham (Unionist)James Hill Dickson (Unionist)Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (Unionist); died 21 July 1930Sir Thomas Dixon, Bt. (Unionist)Thomas Greer (Unionist); died 19 February 1928John Andrew Long (Unionist)Viscount Massereene and Ferrard (Unionist); resigned 1929Robert Dorman (Labour)Robert Sharman-Crawford (Unionist)
1929–1937Henry Armstrong (Unionist)Thomas Joseph Campbell (Nationalist); resigned June 1934Viscount Charlemont (Unionist)Joseph Cunningham (Unionist)Thomas Stanislaus McAllister (Nationalist)James Graham Leslie (Unionist)John McHugh (Nationalist)William John McDowell (Unionist); died 29 June 1929Sir George Clark, Bt. (Unionist); died 23 March 1935John Porter-Porter (Unionist)Thomas Sinclair (Unionist)William Barclay (Unionist)Thomas Lavery (Unionist) from 23 October 1930Hercules Pakenham (Unionist) from 4 April 1928Arthur Frederick Dobbs (Unionist) from 29 July 1929
John Clements Glendinning (Unionist) from 17 October 1934Andrew Quigley (Unionist) from 29 July 1929; died 14 June 1937Dr William Gibson (Unionist) from 30 April 19351933–1941Sir Emerson Herdman (Unionist)Viscount Bangor (Unionist)James Woods Gyle (Independent Unionist); died 2 December 1934Samuel Cunningham (Unionist)James Hill Dickson (Unionist); died 5 July 1938Thomas Lavery (Unionist); died 11 January 1940Sir Thomas Dixon, Bt. (Unionist)Hercules Pakenham (Unionist); died 28 March 1937John Andrew Long (Unionist)Thomas McLaughlin (Nationalist)James McMahon (Nationalist); died 25 April 1936Robert Sharman-Crawford (Unionist); died 20 March 1934
1937–1945John Boyle (Unionist)John Clements Glendinning (Unionist)Viscount Charlemont (Unionist); resigned December 1937Joseph Cunningham (Unionist)Thomas Stanislaus McAllister (Nationalist)James Graham Leslie (Unionist)John McHugh (Nationalist)Hugh Duff (Unionist); died 10 June 1940Dr William Gibson (Unionist); resigned 26 November 1942Joseph Maguire (Nationalist)Thomas Sinclair (Unionist); died 25 November 1940William Barclay (Unionist)Sir Joseph Davison (Unionist) from 7 January 1935Henry Taylor (Unionist) from 11 October 1938William Kingan (Unionist) from 25 January 1940Arthur Frederick Dobbs (Unionist) from 23 April 1937Sir Roland Nugent (Unionist) from 29 May 1936Robert McBride (Unionist) 25 April 1934 – 26 November 1934 (died); Robert Perceval-Maxwell (Unionist) from 7 January 1935
John Hanna Robb (Unionist) 15 December 1937 – 6 May 1943 (disqualified); Rev Robert Corkey (Unionist) from 1 June 1943William Ernest Stevenson (Unionist) from 2 July 1940Gerald Browne (Unionist) from 17 December 1942George Whaley (Unionist) from 23 December 19401941–1949Sir Emerson Herdman (Unionist); died February 1949Viscount Bangor (Unionist)Sir Joseph Davison (Unionist); died 15 July 1948Samuel Cunningham (Unionist); resigned 22 March 1945Henry Taylor (Unionist)William Kingan (Unionist); died 8 December 1946Sir Thomas Dixon, Bt. (Unionist)Arthur Frederick Dobbs (Unionist)John Andrew Long (Unionist); died 30 July 1941Thomas McLaughlin (Nationalist); died 4 April 1944Sir Roland Nugent (Unionist)Thaddeus Lynch (Nationalist)
1945–1953John Boyle (Unionist); died 10 May 1950John Clements Glendinning (Unionist); resigned January 1946Rev Robert Corkey (Unionist)Joseph Cunningham (Unionist)Thomas Stanislaus McAllister (Nationalist); died 29 April 1950James Graham Leslie (Unionist); died 16 May 1949Thomas Nelson (Unionist); resigned 6 October 1949William James Smyth (Labour); died 28 January 1950Gerald Browne (Unionist); died 7 February 1951Joseph Maguire (Nationalist); died 29 June 1951William McConnell Wilton (Independent Unionist)William Barclay (Unionist); died September 1945Marquess of Hamilton (Unionist) from 22 March 1949Sir Wilson Hungerford (Unionist) from 27 August 1948Kennedy Stewart (Unionist) from 24 April 1945John McCormick (Unionist) from 30 January 1947Robert Perceval-Maxwell (Unionist) from 5 September 1941Gerry Lennon (Nationalist) from 8 May 1944
Marion Greeves (Unionist) from 20 June 1950William Moore Wallis Clark (Unionist) from 12 March 1946John McNally (Nationalist) from 20 June 1950David Bill (Unionist) from 21 June 1949Henry Richardson (Unionist) from 15 November 1949Dr Herbert Quin (Unionist) from 21 February 1950Sir George Clark, Bt. (Unionist) from 13 March 1951Charles Bradley (Nationalist) from 21 August 1951Henry Fleming (Unionist) from 24 October 19451949–1957Marquess of Hamilton (Unionist) (Duke of Abercorn from 1953)Viscount Bangor (Unionist); died 17 November 1950Sir Wilson Hungerford (Unionist)Kennedy Stewart (Unionist); resigned 15 March 1955Henry Taylor (Unionist); died 23 January 1957John McCormick (Unionist)Louis Lynch (Nationalist)Arthur Frederick Dobbs (Unionist); died 17 December 1955Paddy O'Hare (Nationalist)Gerry Lennon (Nationalist)Sir Roland Nugent (Unionist)William Ernest Stevenson (Unionist); resigned 31 March 1954
1953–1961Marion Greeves (Unionist)William Moore Wallis Clark (Unionist)Prof Robert Corkey (Unionist)Joseph Cunningham (Unionist)Dr John Patrick Donaghy (Independent)David Bill (Unionist); resigned 29 October 1956Henry Richardson (Unionist); resigned 29 January 1957Dr Herbert Quin (Unionist)Sir George Clark, Bt. (Unionist)Charles Bradley (Nationalist); died 29 June 1957Paddy McGill (Nationalist)Henry Fleming (Unionist); died 28 February 1956Alexander Gordon (Unionist) from 5 December 1950Samuel Boyd (Unionist) from 18 April 1955Daniel McGladdery (Unionist) from 19 February 1957James Bailie (Unionist) from 25 March 1955James Pollock (Unionist) from 23 April 1954
Alexander McConnell (Unionist) from 20 November 1956Albert Walmsley (Unionist) from 19 February 1957John McGlade (Nationalist) from 19 July 1957Robert Armstrong (Unionist) 16 April 1956 – 25 May 1961 (died)1957–1965Duke of Abercorn (Unionist); resigned 8 May 1962Alexander Gordon (Unionist); resigned 20 July 1964James Glencairn Cunningham (Unionist)Samuel Boyd (Unionist); resigned 27 November 1962Daniel McGladdery (Unionist)John McCormick (Unionist); died 20 August 1958Joseph Fisher (Unionist); died 5 July 1963James Bailie (Unionist)Paddy O'Hare (Nationalist)Gerry Lennon (Nationalist)Sir Roland Nugent (Unionist); resigned 18 February 1961William Stewart (Unionist)
1961–1969Marion Greeves (Unionist)Alec Cooke (Unionist)Prof Robert Corkey (Unionist); died 26 January 1966Joseph Cunningham (Unionist); died 14 July 1965Dr John Patrick Donaghy (Nationalist)John Cherry Drennan (Unionist)Albert Walmsley (Unionist); resigned 6 July 1964Dr Herbert Quin (Unionist); died 16 April 1968Sir George Clark, Bt. (Unionist)John McGlade (Nationalist); died 2 June 1967Paddy McGill (Nationalist)Arnold Schofield (Labour)John Barnhill (Unionist) from 26 July 1962Jack Andrews (Unionist) from 6 August 1964Dr Samuel Rodgers (Unionist) from 20 December 1962John Stewart Johnston (Unionist) from 24 October 1958Samuel Kinghan (Unionist) from 15 November 1963Lord Glentoran (Unionist) from 13 March 1961
James Glencairn Cunningham (Unionist) from 24 February 1966Nelson Elder (Unionist) from 11 February 1966Lord Robert Grosvenor (Unionist) 20 October 1964 – 24 July 1967 (resigned); William Wilson (Unionist) from 16 July 1968David McClelland (Unionist) from 27 June 19671965–1973John Barnhill (Unionist); died 12 December 1971Jack Andrews (Unionist)Norman Kennedy (Labour)Dr Samuel Rodgers (Unionist); died 17 June 1970Daniel McGladdery (Unionist)Patrick Francis Mallon (Nationalist)Samuel Kinghan (Unionist)James Bailie (Unionist); died 15 July 1967Paddy O'Hare (Nationalist)Gerry Lennon (Nationalist)Lord Glentoran (Unionist)William Stewart (Unionist)
1969–1973William Cameron (Unionist)Archibald Gibson (Unionist)James Glencairn Cunningham (Unionist)Nelson Elder (Unionist)William James Morgan (Unionist); resigned 2 April 1970John Cherry Drennan (Unionist)William Wilson (Unionist)Charles McCullough (Unionist)Paddy Wilson (Republican Labour)David McClelland (Unionist)Paddy McGill (Nationalist)Claude Wilton (Liberal)Edith Taggart (Unionist) from 24 November 1970John Stewart Johnston (Unionist) from 23 November 1967
Ian McClure (Unionist) from 5 November 1970

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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