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Thomas McConnell
Sir Thomas
Edward McConnell
was a
unionist
politician
in
Northern Ireland
.
McConnell
studied
at the
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
before becoming the
managing director
of a horse and
cattle
sales
firm
. He was elected to the
Belfast Corporation
as a
councillor
and then an alderman, for the
Ulster Unionist Party
. He was also
successful
at the
1921 Belfast Duncairn by-election
, and when his
seat
was abolished the next year, he won
Belfast North
, for which he
sat
until
1929
.