The Lord Browne of Belmont | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 24 July 2006 Life peerage | |
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast East | |
In office 7 March 2007 –24 March 2011 | |
Preceded by | Michael Copeland |
Succeeded by | Sammy Douglas |
62nd Lord Mayor of Belfast | |
In office 1 June 2005 –1 June 2006 | |
Preceded by | Tom Ekin |
Succeeded by | Patrick McCarthy |
Member of Belfast City Council | |
In office 15 May 1985 –2010 | |
Preceded by | District created |
Succeeded by | John Hussey |
Constituency | Victoria |
Personal details | |
Born | Belfast,Northern Ireland | 29 October 1947
Nationality | British |
Political party | Democratic Unionist Party |
Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
Wallace Hamilton Browne,Baron Browne of Belmont (born 29 October 1947),is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician,who has been a Member of the House of Lords since 2006,and was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Belfast from 2007 to 2011.
Browne,a long-serving member of the DUP Central Executive;was a member of Belfast City Council for the Victoria electoral area from 1985 until 2010.
During his time on Belfast City Council,Browne was High Sheriff of the City in 2002 and Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2005–06.
In 2007,Browne was elected in the Assembly elections for the East Belfast seat. He remained a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly until 2011. During his time in the Assembly,he represented his party on various committees,including the Justice Committee,Culture and Arts Committee and the Audit Committee. Browne also served as chairman of the Assembly Procedures Committee.
Since 2006,he has served in the House of Lords. He was one of the first three members of the DUP to be introduced to the second chamber as a life peer,giving the party its first-ever representation in the House of Lords. The other two being Maurice Morrow,the chairman of the DUP,and Eileen Paisley,the wife of the late Leader of the DUP,Ian Paisley;all became "working" life peers. [1] Browne was raised to the peerage as Baron Browne of Belmont,of Belmont in County Antrim on 12 June 2006. [2]
Browne has been an active working peer during his time in the House of Lords,regularly contributing to debates on a range of issues including:Restoration of the Devolved Institutions in Northern Ireland, [3] Armed Forces Veterans,Military [4] Brexit, [5] Historical Abuse and Gambling. In 2017,Browne secured the first focused debate in the House of Lords on the issue of online gambling. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Before he was elected as a member of the NI Assembly in 2007,Browne was previously a grammar school teacher. Browne was also a long-serving trustee of the Somme Association. Browne,a former pupil of Campbell College,Belfast is a graduate of Queen's University,Belfast graduating in 1970 with a degree in zoology [12]
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