Isaac Nelson
Isaac Nelson (18..-1888) [1] was a Presbyterian minister and an Irish Nationalist politician.
Nelson stood for Parliament while minister of the Donegall Street Congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.[2] Having been elected, he resigned his pastoral charge and served as the Irish Parliamentary Party Member of Parliament for Mayo in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1880 to 1882.
In November 1873, at a Home Rule Conference in Dublin, Nelson emphasied the historical nationalism of Ulster Presbyterianism and expressed his view that no candidate in the next election would succeed without embracing Home Rule. His views were published in The Northern Whig Newspaper and were promptly condemned by William Johnston (not the prominent Orangeman of that name), the moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.[3]
The following year Nelson attended and addressed the fourth annual meeting of the "Home Rule Association", held in Manchester, England. In 1877 he was a founding member of the "Home Rule Confederation" [4]
He returned to Belfast and lived there in retirement until his death in 1888.
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Member of Parliament for Mayo 1880 – 1885 With: John O'Connor Power |
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