Samuel Magowan (5 February 1910 – 1976
[Ian McAllister and Richard Rose, ''United Kingdom Facts'', p.56]) was an
Ulster Unionist
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule movem ...
member of the
Parliament of Northern Ireland
The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the home rule legislature of Northern Ireland, created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which sat from 7 June 1921 to 30 March 1972, when it was suspended because of its inability to restore ord ...
. He represented
Iveagh
Iveagh ( ; ) is the name of several historical territorial divisions in what is now County Down, Northern Ireland. Originally it was a Gaelic Irish territory, ruled by the ''Uí Echach Cobo'' and part of the overkingdom of Ulaid. From the 12th ...
from 1964 to 1973.
He was a shopkeeper and a member of Hillsborough Rural District Council from 1955 to 1964.
He served as
Assistant Whip from 1966 until 1972, also holding the office of
Assistant Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Finance from 1966 to 1969.
References
Sources
Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons
1910 births
1976 deaths
Ulster Unionist Party members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland
Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1962–1965
Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1965–1969
Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1969–1973
Northern Ireland junior government ministers (Parliament of Northern Ireland)
Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for County Down constituencies
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