The High Sheriff of Antrim is the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Antrim. Initially an office for lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the...
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language enthusiast, nationalist, and politician John MacNeill, High Sheriff of Antrim in 1843 under Queen Victoria John MacNeill, mechanical engineer...
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William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie (category High sheriffs of Antrim)
same year as High Sheriff of Antrim and subsequently of County Down. In February 1900 he was elected President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United...
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Terence O'Neill (redirect from Baron O'Neill of the Maine)
appointed Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland. In 1953 he served as High Sheriff of Antrim. He was elevated...
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Anthony Traill (college provost) (category High sheriffs of Antrim)
over land tenure reform. In 1884, he was appointed High Sheriff of Antrim. He also became the chairman of the world's first electric tramway, Portrush, founded...
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Sir Thomas Dixon, 2nd Baronet (category High sheriffs of Antrim)
of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1924 to 1950, and was admitted to the Privy Council of Northern Ireland in 1931. He served as High Sheriff of Antrim...
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Sir Hercules Langford, 1st Baronet (category High sheriffs of Antrim)
appointed High Sheriff of Antrim in 1661 and was High Sheriff of Meath in 1677. A devout Presbyterian, Langford was removed from the Commission of the Peace...
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(County Antrim) List of townlands in County Antrim List of civil parishes of County Antrim Lord Lieutenant of Antrim High Sheriff of Antrim Wikimedia...
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William Macartney (1714–1793) (category Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Belfast)
the younger son of Isaac Macartney, High Sheriff of Antrim in 1690, and his wife Anne, sister and co-heiress of John Haltridge of Dromore. His elder...
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William Ellison-Macartney (category High sheriffs of Antrim)
Ellison-Macartney was appointed Deputy-Master of the Royal Mint in January 1903, serving to 1913, and was High Sheriff of Antrim in 1908. In December 1912, Ellison-Macartney...
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