List of Ulster Unionist Party MPs

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This is a list of Ulster Unionist Party MPs. It includes all Members of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons representing the Ulster Unionist Party or its forerunner, the Irish Unionist Party, since 1918. Members of the European Parliament, the Northern Ireland House of Commons or the Northern Ireland Assembly are not listed.

[edit] MPs elected since 1918

W. E. D. Allen, Belfast West, 1929 - 31 ¹
William James Allen, Armagh, 1922 - 48
Christopher Wyborne Armstrong, Armagh, 1954 - 59
Henry Bruce Armstrong, Mid Armagh, 1921 - 22
Hugh Thom Barry, Londonderry North, 1919 - 22
Charles Beattie, Mid Ulster, 1955 - 56
Roy Beggs, East Antrim, 1983 - 2005
Robert Bradford, Belfast South, 1977 - 82 ²
A. C. Browne, Belfast West, 1931 - 43
David Burnside, South Antrim, 2001 - 05
David Campbell, Belfast South, 1952 - 63
John Carson, Belfast North, 1974 - 79
Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Down, 1931 - 45
Robert Chichester, Londonderry South, 1921 - 22
Robin Chichester-Clark, Londonderry, 1955 - 74
Henry Maitland Clark, North Antrim, 1959 - 70
T. L. Cole, Belfast East, 1945 - 50
William Craig, Belfast East, 1977 - 79 ²
Sir Knox Cunningham, Bt., South Antrim, 1955 - 70
George Currie, North Down, 1955 - 70
Herbert Dixon, Belfast East, 1922 - 40
Jeffrey Donaldson, Lagan Valley, 2000 - 04 ³
Charles Fausset Falls, Fermanagh and Tyrone, 1922 - 29
Patricia Ford, North Down, 1953 - 55
George Forrest, Mid Ulster, 1956 - 69 ⁴
Clifford Forsythe, South Antrim, 1983 - 2000
C. H. Gage, Belfast South, 1945 - 52
R. G. Grosvenor, Fermanagh and South Tyrone, 1955 - 64
James Hamilton, Fermanagh and South Tyrone, 1964 - 70
James Richard Edwards Harden, Armagh, 1948 - 54
H. P. Harland, Belfast East, 1940 - 45
Hugh Hayes, West Down, 1922
Sylvia Hermon, North Down, 2001 - present
H. Montgomery Hyde, Belfast North, 1950 - 59
William Morgan Jellett, Dublin University, 1919 - 22
James Kilfedder, Belfast West, 1964 - 66; North Down, 1970 - 77 ⁵
James Little, Down, 1939 - 45 ⁶
R. J. Lynn, Belfast West, 1922 - 29
Thomas Edward McConnell, Belfast Duncairn, 1921 - 22; Belfast North, 1922 - 29
Harold McCusker, Armagh, 1974 - 83; Upper Bann, 1983 - 90
Alan McKibbin, Belfast East, 1950 - 59
Patricia McLaughlin, Belfast West, 1955 - 64
James Godfrey MacManaway, Belfast West, 1950
Stanley McMaster, Belfast East, 1959 - 74
Malcolm Macnaughton, Londonderry North, 1922; Londonderry, 1922 - 29
John Maginnis, Armagh, 1959 - 74
Ken Maginnis, Fermanagh and South Tyrone, 1983 - 2001
Stratton Mills, Belfast North, 1959 - 72 ⁷
Thomas Moles, Belfast South, 1922 - 29
James Molyneaux, South Antrim, 1970 - 83; Lagan Valley, 1983 - 97
Charles Heron Mullan, Down, 1946 - 50
William Frederick Neill, Belfast North, 1945 - 50
Jim Nicholson, Newry and Armagh, 1983 - 86
Hugh O'Neill, Mid Antrim, 1915 - 22; Antrim, 1922 - 50; North Antrim, 1950 - 53
Phelim Robert Hugh O'Neill, North Antrim, 1953 - 59
Willie Orr, South Down, 1950 - 74
William Pain, Londonderry South, 1922
Rafton Pounder, Belfast South, 1953 - 74
Enoch Powell, South Down, 1974 - 87 ⁸
James Alexander Pringle, Fermanagh and Tyrone, 1922 - 29
David Douglas Reid, Down, 1922 - 39
Ronald Ross, Londonderry, 1929 - 51
William Ross, Londonderry, 1974 - 83; East Londonderry, 1983 - 2001
Douglas Lloyd Savory, Queen's University, Belfast, 1940 - 50; South Antrim, 1950 - 55
Robert Sharman-Crawford, Mid Down, 1921 - 22
John Morrow Simms, North Down, 1922; Down, 1922 - 31
T. Sinclair, Queen's University, Belfast, 1918 - 40
Walter Smiles, Down, 1945 - 50; North Down, 1950 - 53
Martin Smyth, Belfast South, 1982 - 2005
Thomas Somerset, Belfast North, 1929 - 45
W. J. Stewart, Belfast South, 1929 - 45
John Taylor, Strangford, 1983 - 2001
Thomas Teevan, Belfast West, 1950 - 51
William Thompson, West Tyrone, 1997 - 2001
David Trimble, Upper Bann, 1990 - 2005
Cecil Walker, Belfast North, 1983 - 2001
Thomas Browne Wallace, Down West, 1921 - 22
William Wellwood, Londonderry, 1951 - 55
Harry West, Fermanagh and South Tyrone, 1974
Henry Hughes Wilson, North Down, 1922

[edit] MPs elected in 1918

William James Allen, Armagh North
Hugh Alfred Anderson, Londonderry North
Edward Mervyn Archdale, Fermanagh North
Thomas Watters Brown, Down North
Edward Henry Carson, Belfast Duncairn
William Coote, Tyrone South
Charles Curtis Craig, Antrim South
James Craig, Down Mid
Herbert Dixon, Belfast Pottinger
Maurice Edward Dockrell, Dublin Rathmines
Denis Stanislaus Henry, Londonderry South
Peter Kerr Kerr-Smiley, Antrim North
William Arthur Lindsay, Belfast Cromac
James Rolston Lonsdale, Mid Armagh
Robert John Lynn, Belfast Woodvale
Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont, Antrim East
Thomas Moles, Belfast Ormeau
Hugh O'Neill, Mid Antrim
David Douglas Reid, Down East
Arthur Warren Samuels, Dublin University
William Whitla, Queen's University of Belfast
Daniel Martin Wilson, West Down

¹ Defected to the New Party.

² Elected in 1974 for the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party.

³ Defected to the Democratic Unionist Party.

⁴ Elected in 1956 as an Independent Unionist.

⁵ Left the party to become an Independent Unionist before forming the Ulster Popular Unionist Party.

⁶ Resigned from the party at the 1945 general election in protest at being subject to a reselection due to the retirement of Viscount Castlereagh, the other Ulster Unionist MP for the two member Down constituency and held his seat as an Independent Ulster Unionist.

⁷ Refused to follow the other Ulster Unionists in resigning the Conservative whip; later joined the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

⁸ Previously Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West 1950-1974

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