John Ellison-Macartney

For other people named John Macartney, see John Macartney (disambiguation).

John William Ellison-Macartney (1818 – 13 February 1904),[1] born John William Ellison, was a barrister and Irish Conservative Party politician elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. From 1874 to 1885, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tyrone.

Ellison-Macartney was called to the bar in 1846, and to the Irish Bar in 1848. In 1870, he was High Sheriff of County Armagh.[2]

Ellison-Macartney first stood for Parliament at the Tyrone by-election in 1873 after the death of Henry T. Lowry-Corry. He narrowly lost that contest (by 3,103 votes to 3,139) to his sole opponent, the Conservative Henry W. Lowry-Corry (a nephew of the deceased MP); the Liberals had not fielded a candidate in Tyrone since 1852. At the 1874 general election, Tyrone's two seats were contested by three Conservatives, and Ellison-Macartney topped the poll by a wide margin, unseating the sitting MP Lord Claud Hamilton.[3] He was re-elected in 1880, and held the seat until the Redistribution of Seats Act divided the Tyrone constituency into four new single-member divisions for the 1885 general election.[3] He did not stand again. He was also a member of The Apprentice Boys of Derry Parent Club.

  1. ^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons page. Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "Macartney, John Ellison-1818-1904". Dictionary of Uster Biography. Archived from the original on 19 March 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
  3. ^ a b Brian M. Walker, ed. (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 316–317. ISBN 0-901714-12-7.