Sir Henry George Hill Mulholland, 1st Baronet, PC(NI), DL (20 December 1888 – 5 March 1971) was a

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politician. Mulholland was the third son of The 2nd Baron Dunleath and Norah Louisa Fanny Ward. He was educated at Eton and

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.MULHOLLAND, Rt Hon. Sir Henry George Hill
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er at

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where he won a

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for cricket in three seasons from 1911 to 1913, and he also played a first-class match for

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against

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in 1911. He was a member of the

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for Down and was Assistant Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Finance and Assistant Whip from 1925 until 1929,The Government of Northern Ireland
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. He was admitted to the

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in 1930 and in 1945 he was created a Baronet, of Ballyscullion Park in the County of Londonderry. Mulholland married Sheelah Brooke (1895-1982), daughter of Sir Arthur Brooke, 4th Baronet, and sister of The 1st Viscount Brookeborough,

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. He died in March 1971, aged 82, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Michael, who in 1993 succeeded his cousin as fifth Baron Dunleath.

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