Sir James Horner Haslett (January 1832 – 18 August 1905) was an

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and then Unionist Party politician who sat in the

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from 1885 to 1886 and 1896 to 1905. Sir James Haslett

Haslett was born in

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, the son of the Rev. Henry Haslett of Castlereagh,

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and his wife Mary Wilson, daughter of John Wilson, linen merchant of Drumcroon, Coleraine. He was educated at the

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and became a chemist and druggist. He was an

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, and a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) of Belfast.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886
/ref> At the 1885 general election Haslett was elected Member of Parliament for Belfast West. He held the seat until 1886. He was

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in 1887 and knighted in the same year. He was mayor again in 1888.Belfast City Council - Former Mayors (1842-1891)
He returned to the

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at a by-election in January 1896 as MP for Belfast North. He was re-elected in

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, and held the seat until his death in 1905 in Belfast, aged 73. Haslett married Annie Rea of London in 1877.

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* 1832 births 1905 deaths Irish Conservative Party MPs Knights Bachelor Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Belfast constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 Date of birth missing Mayors of Belfast Irish Unionist Party MPs {{Conservative-UK-MP-1830s-stub