Captain William Wellwood (1893 – 28 Jun 1971) was the

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 ...

MP for Londonderry in the Westminster Parliament from 1951 to 1955. Following the resignation of incumbent MP

Ronald Ross Sir Ronald Ross (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the f ...

, Wellwood was elected unopposed in a by-election on 19 May 1951. He was one of the last four MPs to be unopposed in a general election, on 25 October 1951. He retired at the

1955 United Kingdom general election The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 26 May 1955. It was a snap election: Anthony Eden called the election after succeeding Winston Churchill, Churchill in April 1955 to secure a mandate. The Eden ministry, government wo ...

, and was replaced by

Robin Chichester-Clark Sir Robert "Robin" Chichester-Clark (10 January 1928 – 5 August 2016) was a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament for Londonderry from 1955 until February 1974, and to date was the last MP representing a seat in Northern I ...

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1893 births 1971 deaths Ulster Unionist Party MPs Recipients of the Military Cross Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Londonderry constituencies (since 1922) UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 {{NorthernIreland-UK-MP-stub