John Clarke Davison
John Clarke Davison (born 19 April 1875) was a barrister and Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
Davison was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution and Trinity College, Dublin and was called to the Irish Bar in 1898. He was a legal adviser to the Government of Northern Ireland from 1922–1925, and Senior Crown Prosecutor for County Louth and County Antrim. In 1925, he was elected in a by-election as a Unionist to the Parliament of Northern Ireland from County Armagh, and then from 1929 from Mid-Armagh until resigning his seat shortly after the 1938 general election upon appointment as Recorder of Londonderry.[1]
He was Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from March - June 1937 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs from 1937 - 1938. He died on 19 February 1946.[1]
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- 1875 births
- 1946 deaths
- Alumni of Trinity College, Dublin
- Barristers from Northern Ireland
- Members of the Parliament of Northern Ireland 1925–29
- Members of the Parliament of Northern Ireland 1929–33
- Members of the Parliament of Northern Ireland 1933–38
- Members of the Parliament of Northern Ireland 1938–45
- Northern Ireland junior government ministers (Parliament of Northern Ireland)
- Ulster Unionist Party politicians
- Judges in Northern Ireland
- People educated at Coleraine Academical Institution