Alexander Browne | |
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Member of Parliament for Belfast West | |
In office 27 October 1931 –11 December 1942 | |
Preceded by | W.E.D. Allen |
Succeeded by | Jack Beattie |
Personal details | |
Died | 11 December 1942 |
Political party | Ulster Unionist Party |
Captain Alexander Crawford Browne (died 11 December 1942) was an Ulster Unionist Party politician. [1]
Crawford Browne attended Methodist College Belfast from 1873 to 1880. He served in the 36th (Ulster) Division from 1914 to 1919 and became a Captain in 1917. In 1924 he was elected as a Belfast City Councillor before becoming a councillor for Princeton Ward in Bangor in 1927. [2] He was elected at the 1931 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast West,and held the seat until his death. [3]
In 1935,he married Dorothy Dawson. Dorothy was from a family of eight who also attended Methodist College Belfast. [4]
His death triggered a by-election in February 1943,when the formerly safe Unionist seat was won by the Northern Ireland Labour Party candidate Jack Beattie.