Thomas Henry Burn (19 January 1875 – 7 June 1949) was an
Ulster Unionist
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a 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 led unionist oppositi ...
member of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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and the
Parliament of Northern Ireland
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.
He represented
Belfast St Anne's in the former from 1918 to 1922, and
Belfast West in the latter from 1921 to 1925.
Burn was born at 21 Wesley Street, Belfast on 19 January 1875 and was the son of linen worker Thomas Henry Burn and Agnes Cassidy. He was educated at Belfast National School and subsequently trained as a lithographic printer.
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He was Assistant Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Finance and Assistant Whip from 1921 until 1925.The Government of Northern Ireland]
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He lost his seat at the 1925 Northern Ireland general election.[
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References
Sources
Northern Ireland Parliament Elections Results: Biographies
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1875 births
1933 deaths
Ulster Unionist Party members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Belfast constituencies (1801–1922)
UK MPs 1918–1922
Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1921–1925
Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1925–1929
Northern Ireland junior government ministers (Parliament of Northern Ireland)
Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for Belfast constituencies
Members of the 1st Dáil