Clarence Graham

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Sir Clarence Johnston Graham, 1st Baronet (8 May 1900 - 22 December 1966) was an Ulster Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland. Controversially, along with Brian Maginess QC, he called from the UUP to encourage Roman Catholic membership whilst speaking at a Young Unionists meeting in 1959.

The son of John Graham JP and Margaret (nee Moodie) Sir Clarence was educated at Banbridge Academy and the Queen's University, Belfast. He was director of his family's firm, John Graham, Ltd, engineering contractors (est. c.1788) from 1955, and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ulster Unionist Council from 1947 to 1963. Sir Clarence was Chairman of Dromore Urban Council (1928-32) and of Iveagh Unionist Assoc (1935-65), he was President of the latter from 1965 until his death.

Having been knighted in 1952 he was, in 1964, created Baronet, of Dromore, County Down. He was succeeded by his son John Moodie Graham (b. 1938) upon his death. Sir John, the second baronet, lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.