Hugh Morrison (Northern Ireland politician)

Hugh Smith Morrison (1858–1929) was a Northern Ireland surgeon and politician.

Life

He was born in County Londonderry, the second son of Hugh Morrison J.P. of Moneydig.[1][2] He was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution, and studied in the Royal University of Ireland, in Queen's College, Belfast and the College of Surgeons, Dublin. In 1884 he graduated M.D., with a diploma L.R.C.S.[3][4]

Going into private medical practice in County Londonderry, Morrison was also involved in Unionist politics there.[4] He lived at Aghadowey.[5] He later became coroner for Coleraine.[3] A Presbyterian, he was active in General Assembly meetings, and also took part in medical societies as a reformer.[4] When Denis Henry, a Catholic, stood for the South Londonderry constituency in the Westminster parliament, Morrison endorsed him.[6]

From 1921, Morrison represented for the as Ulster Unionist Party the Queen's University constituency, in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and Stormont Parliament, and supported the introduction of the Special Powers Act 1922.[3][4][7] In the debate on the Criminal Law Amendment Act (Northern Ireland) 1923, he commented on sexual morality in Belfast, as "a very dark picture" below the surface.[8]

Morrison died at his home, Blackhill, Coleraine, on 21 May 1929.[4]

Works

Family

Morrison married in 1884 Louisa Jane Whitley, only daughter of the late David Whitley of Ballymena.[2] They were both buried in the graveyard at Aghadowey parish church, as were two sons.[10]

Notes
  1. Carty, James (2012-03-30). Bibliography of Irish History 1912-1921. Andrews UK Limited. p. 23. ISBN 9781781514832. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  2. "Marriages". Northern Constitution. 20 December 1884. p. 8.
  3. Harbinson, John F. (1973). The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882–1973. Belfast: Blackstaff Press. p. 202. ISBN 0856400769.
  4. Dr. Hugh Smith Morrison. The British Medical Journal, vol. 1, no. 3570, 1929, p. 1063. JSTOR 25332789
  5. Bolton, Charles Knowles (2013-04-16). Scotch Irish Pioneers In Ulster And America. Read Books Limited. p. 1552. ISBN 9781446549261. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  6. McDonnell, A. D. (2000). The Life of Sir Denis Henry: Catholic Unionist. Ulster Historical Foundation. p. 133. ISBN 9780901905949. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  7. Rapoport, David C. (2006). Terrorism: The second or anti-colonial wave. Taylor & Francis. p. 294. ISBN 9780415316521. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  8. Review by Sandra McAvoy, Reviewed Work: Regulating Sexuality: Women in Twentieth-Century Northern Ireland by Leanne McCormick, The Irish Review (1986–) No. 45 (Autumn 2012), pp. 85–87, at p. 85. Published by: Cork University Press. JSTOR 23350142
  9. Boyce, D. George; Eccleshall, Dr Robert; Eccleshall, Robert, Vincent Geoghegan (2008-03-07). Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century. Routledge. p. 208. ISBN 9781134981373. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  10. "Aghadowey Parish Church, Graveyard Records, Co. Derry, NI". Retrieved 9 September 2018.
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