Sir Andrew Beattie (6 August 1860 – 19 November 1923) was an

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politician and public servant. Beattie was born in

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, County Down. For many years, both before and after the creation of the

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, he led the Unionist group on the

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, of which he was an

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. He was also High Sheriff of Dublin, a Deputy Lieutenant for the City of Dublin, Commissioner of National Education for Ireland, and a Senator of the short-lived

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. He unsuccessfully contested the seat of West Down in the

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three times as an

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. Beattie stood for election to the

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in the 1923 general election as an Independent candidate in Dublin South. He failed to win the election by a margin of 490 votes less than the anti-Treaty Sinn Féin candidate Charles Murphy. He was the most prominent Presbyterian politician in Dublin and was a member of Ormond Quay Presbyterian Church. He was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours for his services to Dublin and was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland in the

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, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable".

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