|
Thomas Moles
Thomas Moles (13 November 1871 – 3 February 1937) was a journalist and Ulster Unionist politician. Life Born in Belfast in 1871, Moles was the son of Edward Moles and Margaret née Carson and was educated at the Collegiate School, Ballymena. A journalist by profession, he was Leader Writer for the ''Belfast Telegraph'' from 1909 until 1924 and managing editor for that newspaper from 1924. Moles was an Irish representative on the British press visit to Canada in 1911. He was a member of the Secretariat to the Irish Convention from 1917 to 1918. Moles was MP for Belfast Ormeau 1918–1922 and Belfast South at Westminster from 1922 until he retired in 1929. He was also an MP in the Northern Ireland House of Commons from 1921 to 1929 for South Belfast and for Belfast, Ballynafeigh from 1929 to his death in 1937. He was the first ever member declared elected to the Northern Ireland House of Commons. He was Chairman of the Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belfast South (UK Parliament Constituency)
Belfast South is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Claire Hanna of the SDLP. Boundaries 1885–1918: In the Borough of Belfast, that part of Cromac ward not in the constituency of Belfast East, that part of St. George's ward not in the constituency of Belfast West, and the townlands of Malone Lower and that part of Malone Upper within the parliamentary borough in the parish of Shankill. 1922–1974: The County Borough of Belfast wards of Cromac, Ormeau, and Windsor. 1974–1983: The County Borough of Belfast wards of Cromac, Ormeau, and Windsor, the District of Lisburn electoral divisions of Ardmore, Dunmurry, Finaghy, and Upper Malone, and the Rural District of Hillsborough electoral divisions of Breda and Edenderry. 1983–1997: The District of Belfast wards of Ballynafeigh, Cromac, Donegall, Finaghy, Malone, Ormeau, Rosetta, St George's, Stranmillis, University, Upper Malone, Willowfield, and Windsor. 1997–2010: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Belfast Telegraph
The ''Belfast Telegraph'' is a daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Independent News & Media. Its editor is Eoin Brannigan. Reflecting its unionist tradition, the paper has historically been "favoured by the Protestant population", while also being read within Catholic nationalist communities in Northern Ireland. History It was first published as the ''Belfast Evening Telegraph'' on 1 September 1870 by brothers William and George Baird. Its first edition cost half a penny and ran to four pages covering the Franco-Prussian War and local news. The evening edition of the newspaper was originally called the "Sixth Late", and "Sixth Late Tele" was a familiar cry made by vendors in Belfast city centre in the past. Local editions were published for distribution to Enniskillen, Dundalk, Newry and Derry. Its competitors are ''The News Letter'' and ''The Irish News'', and local editions of London-based red tops also compete in this market, in some cases selling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journalists From Northern Ireland
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism. Roles Journalists can be broadcast, print, advertising, and public relations personnel, and, depending on the form of journalism, the term ''journalist'' may also include various categories of individuals as per the roles they play in the process. This includes reporters, correspondents, citizen journalists, editors, editorial-writers, columnists, and visual journalists, such as photojournalists (journalists who use the medium of photography). A reporter is a type of journalist who researches, writes and reports on information in order to present using sources. This may entail conducting interviews, information-gathering and/or writing articles. Reporters may split their time between working in a newsroom, or from home, and going ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1871 Births
Events January–March * January 3 – Franco-Prussian War – Battle of Bapaume: Prussians win a strategic victory. * January 18 – Proclamation of the German Empire: The member states of the North German Confederation and the south German states, aside from Austria, unite into a single nation state, known as the German Empire. The King of Prussia is declared the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of Germany, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. Constitution of the German Confederation comes into effect. It abolishes all restrictions on Jewish marriage, choice of occupation, place of residence, and property ownership, but exclusion from government employment and discrimination in social relations remain in effect. * January 21 – Giuseppe Garibaldi's group of French and Italian volunteer troops, in support of the French Third Republic, win a battle against the Prussians in the Battle of Dijon. * February 8 – 1871 French legislative election elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clarke Davison
John Clarke Davison (19 April 1875 – 19 February 1946) 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 County Armagh (, named after its county town, Armagh) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the southern shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and ha ..., and then from 1929 from Mid-Armagh until resigning his seat shortly after the 1938 general election upon appointment as Recorder of Londonderry. He was Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from March – Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deputy Speaker Of The Northern Ireland House Of Commons
The Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons was the presiding officer of the lower house of Parliament in Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1972. The Speaker had an official residence, Stormont House. All the Speakers were members of the Ulster Unionist Party on their election. There was initially one Deputy Speaker, also invariably an Ulster Unionist, who was also the Chairman of Ways and Means. In 1958 a second Deputy Speaker was appointed, and given the title Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means. From 1963 onwards, this post was often given to members of the Nationalist Party or Northern Ireland Labour Party The Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) was a political party in Northern Ireland which operated from 1924 until 1987. Origins The roots of the NILP can be traced back to the formation of the Belfast Labour Party in 1892. William Walker stoo .... Speakers Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker ReferencesMembers of the Northern Ireland House of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Thompson (Unionist Politician)
Frederick or Fred Thompson may refer to: Sportspeople * Frederick Thompson (athlete) (1880–1956), British track and field athlete * Rangi Thompson (Frederick Haughton Thompson, 1908–1971), New Zealand rower * Fredy Thompson (born 1982), Guatemalan footballer * Fred Thompson (footballer, born c. 1873) (c. 1873–1958), English footballer * Fred Thompson (footballer, born 1870) (1870–1898), English footballer * Fred Thompson (rugby union) (1890–1915), Australian rugby union player * Fred Thompson (coach) (1933–2019), American lawyer and track and field coach Other * Frederic Thompson (1873–1919), American engineer, inventor, and showman known for creating Luna Park and the New York Hippodrome * Fred D. Thompson (businessman) (1915–1988), American publishing executive * Frederick P. Thompson (1846–1922), Canadian entrepreneur and politician * Fred Thompson (1942–2015), American politician and actor * Fred W. Thompson (1900–1987), Canadian-American labor organize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Babington (died 1972)
Sir Anthony Brutus Babington PC (NI) (24 November 1877 – 10 April 1972) was an Anglo-Irish barrister, judge and politician. Early life Babington was born in 1877 to Hume Babington JP (son of The Rev. Hume Babington), a landowner of 1,540 acres,''Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland'', 1958, 4th Edition by L. G. Pine, Burke's Peerage: 'Babington of Creevagh', p. 42 and Hester ( Watt; sister of Andrew Alexander Watt) at Creevagh House, County Londonderry. He was educated at Glenalmond School, Perthshire and Trinity College, Dublin, where he won the Gold Medal for Oratory of the College Historical Society in 1899. Babington was born into the Anglo-Irish Babington family that arrived in Ireland in 1610 when Brutus Babington was appointed Bishop of Derry. Notable relations include Robert Babington, William Babington, Benjamin Guy Babington and James Melville Babington and author Anthony Babington. Political and legal career Babington was called to the Irish Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip James Woods
Colonel Philip James Woods (23 September 1880 – 12 September 1961) was an independent unionist politician in Northern Ireland, member of the Northern Ireland House of Commons. He was a colonel in the Royal Irish Rifles, seeing action on the Western Front in the First World War and in Karelia where he raised and led a local regiment during the Allied Intervention North Russia Russia. In Belfast he worked as a textile designer. Early years Woods was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and at the Belfast School of Art. For four years he was employed as a textile designer in a firm of linen manufacturer in Belfast. Under age for regular enlistment in the South African War, he joined Robert Baden Powell's South African Constabulary, serving nearly two years before returning to Belfast and his previous employment. In the Home Rule Crisis he joined the Ulster Volunteers and was involved in the gun-running that armed the force with German munitions. Military ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawford McCullagh
The Rt Hon. Sir Crawford McCullagh, 1st Baronet (1868 (Aghalee, Co. Antrim) – 13 April 1948), was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. McCullagh started his career as an apprentice at the age of 14 in the drapery trade. He then became the director of several businesses in Belfast, including Maguire and Patterson, a dry goods firm (Vespa matches), and the Classic Cinema at Castle Place, as well as owning McCullagh and Co., a silk mercers, milliners and fancy drapery store taken over by Styles and Mantles in 1927. He was elected to Belfast Corporation for the Irish Unionist Party. In 1911, he was the High Sheriff of Belfast, and from 1914 to 1917 Lord Mayor of Belfast. McCullagh was not the pioneer of the 'Two Minutes Silence', as Newtownabbey author Bob Armstrong claimed in his publication ''Through The Ages To Newtownabbey''. According to ''The Belfast Telegraph'' at the time Sir Crawford called for a 'Five Minutes Silence' on 11 July 1916, following receiving news of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.JPG "Click for more on -> The Belfast Telegraph")
.jpg "Click for more on -> Journalists From Northern Ireland")
_(LOC)_-_Flickr_-_The_Library_of_Congress.jpg "Click for more on -> 1871 Births")