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Julia McMordie

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Julia McMordie CBE (1860-1942) was an Ulster Unionist MP.

McMordie was the daughter of Sir William Gray, of Hartlepool, Co. Durham. A Presbyterian, she was educated at Chislehurst, Kent. On 21 May 1886 she married prominent Belfast solicitor Robert James McMordie MP (d. 1914), she spent her married life in Northern Ireland.

In 1921 she was one of two women elected to the first Parliament of Northern Ireland, she represented South Belfast. She did not stand for re-election in 1925.

In 1925 McMordie moved to East Cliff, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, in order to be near her family (a son and daughter). She was the first lady High Sheriff of Belfast. She died, in 1942, at her daughter's home in King's Cliffe, Oundle.

References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs