Charles Fausset Falls (1 January 1860 – 20 September 1936) was a unionist

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. Falls studied on HMS ''Conway'' and then at Trinity College, Dublin, then managed the family estate, at Fallsbrook,

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. During

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, he served as a major in the

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.John F. Harbinson, ''The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973'', p. 186 Falls stood unsuccessfully for the

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(UUP) in Fermanagh and Tyrone at the

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, being defeated by two Nationalist Party candidates. At the 1924 election, the Nationalist Party did not stand, and Falls was elected alongside fellow UUP member James Pringle, easily beating two

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members. Falls did not stand in

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, when two Nationalist Party members gained the constituency unopposed.

Personal life

Falls' eldest son was the historian

Cyril Falls Cyril Bentham Falls CBE (2 March 1888 – 23 April 1971) was a 20th Century British military historian, journalist, and academic, noted for his works on the First World War. Early life Falls was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 2 March 1888, the eld ...

.Entry for Cyril Bentham Falls (1888-1971), 'Dictionary of National Biography', 1971.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Falls, Charles 1860 births 1936 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Fermanagh and Tyrone (1922–1950) People from County Tyrone Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers officers UK MPs 1924–1929 Ulster Unionist Party members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom British Army personnel of World War I