John William Ellison-Macartney (1818 – 13 February 1904),[1] born John William Ellison, was a barrister and Irish Conservative Party politician elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. From 1874 to 1885, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tyrone.

Ellison-Macartney was called to the bar in 1846, and to the Irish Bar in 1848. In 1870, he was High Sheriff of County Armagh.[2]

Ellison-Macartney first stood for Parliament at the Tyrone by-election in 1873 after the death of Henry T. Lowry-Corry. He narrowly lost that contest (by 3,103 votes to 3,139) to his sole opponent, the Conservative Henry W. Lowry-Corry (a nephew of the deceased MP); the Liberals had not fielded a candidate in Tyrone since 1852. At the 1874 general election, Tyrone's two seats were contested by three Conservatives, and Ellison-Macartney topped the poll by a wide margin, unseating the sitting MP Lord Claud Hamilton.[3] He was re-elected in 1880, and held the seat until the Redistribution of Seats Act divided the Tyrone constituency into four new single-member divisions for the 1885 general election.[3] He did not stand again. He was also a member of The Apprentice Boys of Derry Parent Club.

Family

Born John William Ellison, he changed the family surname to Ellison-Macartney by Royal Licence of 4 April 1859, following the death of his maternal uncle the Rev. William George Macartney (grandson of William Macartney MP).[4]

His son William (1852–1924) was MP for South Antrim from 1885 to 1903, a founder of the Irish Unionist Party, Governor of Tasmania from 1913 to 1917, and Governor of Western Australia from 1917 to 1920.[5]

Arms

Coat of arms of John Ellison-Macartney
Notes
Granted 23 April 1859 by Sir John Berard Burke, Ulster King of Arms.[6]
Crest
1st a cubit arm erect the hand grasping a rose branch in flower all Proper beneath an escroll inscribed "Simulat Sed Ornat" (Macartney) 2nd a buck's head erased Proper charged on the neck with a trefoil slipped Vert (Ellison).
Escutcheon
Quarterly 1st & 4th Or a buck trippant Gules within a bordure of the last (Macartney) 2nd & 3rd Gules on a chevron between three eagle's heads erased Argent a trefoil slipped Vert (Ellison).
Motto
Spe Gaudeo

References

  1. ^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons page. Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2009.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "Macartney, John Ellison-1818-1904". Dictionary of Uster Biography. Archived from the original on 19 March 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
  3. ^ a b Brian M. Walker, ed. (1978). Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 316–317. ISBN 0-901714-12-7.
  4. ^ Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland (1863) vol. II, p. 925–6.
  5. ^ "Sir William Grey Ellison-Macartney 1917-1920". Constitutional Centre of Western Australia. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
  6. ^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms, Vol. F". National Library of Ireland. p. 154. Retrieved 1 July 2022.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom Preceded byHenry W. Lowry-CorryLord Claud Hamilton Member of Parliament for Tyrone 1874 – 1885 With: Henry W. Lowry-Corry 1873–1880Edward Falconer Litton 1880–1881Thomas Alexander Dickson 1881–1885 Constituency abolished


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