Charles Cunningham Connor (c. 1840 – 10 February 1914) was an MP for North Antrim. Connor was educated at the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast and

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, and was a businessman prior to entering Parliament, as well as an alderman of

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. Between 1889 and 1891 he was Mayor of Belfast (the last before the post was upgraded to Lord Mayor). He was elected to Parliament at the general election of 1892, but did not stand in

1895 Events January * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of tr ...

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Members of Parliament after 1832 - Charles Connor
Irish Unionist Party MPs 1840s births 1914 deaths Mayors of Belfast Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Antrim constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1892–1895 {{Ireland-UK-MP-stub