John Ellison-Macartney
John William Ellison-Macartney (1818 – 13 February 1904),[1] born John William Ellison, was an Irish barrister and Conservative politician. From 1874 to 1885 he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency), taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Ellison-Macartney was called to the bar in 1846, and to the Irish Bar in 1848. In 1870 he was High Sheriff of County Armagh.[2]
Ellison-Macartney first stood for Parliament at the Tyrone by-election in 1873 after the death of Henry T. Lowry-Corry. He narrowly lost that contest (by 3103 votes to 3139) to his sole opponent, the Conservative Henry W. Lowry-Corry (a nephew of the deceased MP); the Liberals had not fielded a candidate in Tyrone since 1852. At the 1874 general election, Tyrone's two seats were contested by three Conservatives, and Ellison-Macartney topped the poll by a wide margin, unseating the sitting MP Lord Claud Hamilton.[3] He was re-elected in 1880, and held the seat until the Redistribution of Seats Act divided the Tyrone constituency into four new single-member divisions for the 1885 general election.[3] He did not stand again. He was also a member of The Apprentice Boys of Derry Parent Club.
Family
Born John William Ellison, he changed the family surname to Ellison-Macartney by Royal Licence of 4 April 1859, following the death of his maternal uncle the Rev. William George Macartney (grandson of William Macartney MP).[4]
His son William (1852–1924) was MP for South Antrim from 1885 to 1903, a founder of the Irish Unionist Party, Governor of Tasmania from 1913 to 1917, and Governor of Western Australia from 1917 to 1920.[5]
References
- ^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons page. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
- ^ "Macartney, John Ellison-1818-1904". Dictionary of Uster Biography. (via the wayBack machine). Archived from the original on 19 March 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
- ^ a b Brian M. Walker, ed. (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 316–317. ISBN 0-901714-12-7.
- ^ Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland (1863) vol. II, p. 925–6.
- ^ "Sir William Grey Ellison-Macartney 1917-1920". Constitutional Centre of Western Australia. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
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