Captain Alexander Crawford Browne (died 11 December 1942) was an

Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a Unionism in Ireland, unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it l ...

politician. Crawford Browne attended

Methodist College Belfast Methodist College Belfast (MCB), locally known as Methody, is a co-educational voluntary grammar school in Belfast, located at the foot of the Malone Road, Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1865 by the Methodist Church in Ireland and is one of e ...

from 1873 to 1880. He served in the

36th (Ulster) Division The 36th (Ulster) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of Lord Kitchener's New Army, formed in September 1914. Originally called the ''Ulster Division'', it was made up of mainly members of the Ulster Volunteers, who f ...

from 1914 to 1919 and became a Captain in 1917. In 1924 he was elected as a Belfast City Councillor before becoming a councillor for Princeton Ward in Bangor in 1927. He was elected at the 1931 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast West, and held the seat until his death. In 1935, he married Dorothy Dawson. Dorothy was from a family of eight who also attended

. His death triggered a by-election in February 1943, when the formerly safe Unionist seat was won by the

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candidate

Jack Beattie John Beattie (14 April 1886 – 9 March 1960) was a Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) politician from Northern Ireland. He was a teacher by profession. In 1925, he became a Member of the Northern Ireland House of Commons for Belfast East. ...

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* Year of birth missing 1942 deaths Ulster Unionist Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Belfast constituencies (since 1922) UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 People educated at Methodist College Belfast Place of birth missing British Army personnel of World War I Members of Belfast City Council {{NorthernIreland-UK-MP-stub