Robert Harcourt Explained

Robert Harcourt
Office:Lord Mayor of Belfast
Term Start:1955
Term End:1957
Predecessor:Percival Brown
Successor:Cecil McKee
Office1:High Sheriff of Belfast
Term Start1:1948
Term End1:1949
Predecessor1:James Henry Norritt
Successor1:Stuart Knox Henry
Office2:Member of the Northern Ireland Senate
Term Start2:1955
Term End2:1957
Office3:Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament
for Belfast Woodvale
Term Start3:4 April 1950
Term End3:15 November 1955
Predecessor3:John William Nixon
Successor3:Neville Martin
Birth Date:1902
Birth Place:Belfast, Northern Ireland
Death Date:25 August 1969
Party:Ulster Unionist

Sir Robert John Rolston Harcourt, JP (1902 – 25 August 1969) was a Northern Irish unionist politician.

Background

Robert Harcourt, known as John, became the director of F. E. Harcourt and Company coal merchants. He was High Sheriff of Belfast in 1949, and later in the year unsuccessfully stood as the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) candidate for South Down. Soon after this, John William Nixon, the independent Unionist MP for Belfast Woodvale, died. Harcourt stood in the ensuing by-election on 4 April 1950 and was elected.[1]

In 1955, Harcourt was elected Lord Mayor of Belfast, a position which carried with it an ex officio position in the Senate of Northern Ireland. He served until 1957, when he was knighted.

Harcourt was an active member of the Orange Order and a Member of the prestigious Belfast lodge, Royal York LOL 145.

References

  1. http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/biographies.html Northern Ireland Parliamentary Elections Results: Biographies

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