Wallace Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont

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Wallace Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont

Wallace Hamilton Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont , MLA (born October 29, 1947 in Belfast ) is a Northern Irish politician of the Democratic Unionist Party and life peer .

life and career

Browne was born to Gerald Browne and Phyllis Hamilton Brown. He graduated from Queen's University Belfast .

He worked as a school teacher. From 1970 to 2000 he taught biology at the Rainey Endowed School in Magherafelt .

Browne had been a member of the Belfast City Council for the Victoria borough since 1985 . In 1993 he was there Alderman . From 2002 to 2003 he was High Sheriff of Belfast. From 2005 to 2006 he was mayor ( Lord Mayor ) of Belfast.

In 2007, Browne was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for the constituency of East Belfast . He is a member of the Somme Association's Trustee . He became a member of the National Association of Schoolmasters (NASUWT) in 1972.

Browne lives in Belfast .

Membership in the House of Lords

On 12 June 2006 he was appointed Life peer as Baron Browne of Belmont, of Belmont, County Antrim appointed. On June 24, 2006, he was officially inducted into the House of Lords with the assistance of James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead and Diljit Rana, Baron Rana . He gave his inaugural address in the House of Lords on November 20, 2006. He initially sat there as a crossbencher .

Along with Eileen Paisley and Maurice Morrow, Baron Morrow, he is one of the first three members of the Democratic Unionist Party in the House of Lords.

He cites education, Northern Ireland affairs and Balkan affairs as subjects of political concern. He mentions Brazil , Canada , Croatia , France , Germany , Italy , Montenegro and Serbia as states of particular interest .

He regularly speaks up and takes part in votes. In July 2012, on the second reading of the Finance Bill , he spoke about deficits in the implementation of election promises in the period since 2010. In 2012, he spoke there several times on the subject of energy policy . In June 2013 he spoke out clearly against it during the two-day reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill .

Brown's attendance on meeting days is in the medium to regular range.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at Leigh Rayment
  2. ↑ Entry in Debretts
  3. ↑ Wallace Browne  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entry on Stratagem Lobbying for the Future , accessed July 14, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.stratagem-ni.com  
  4. ↑ Four new unionist peers app article on BBC News on April 11, 2006
  5. ↑ Lord Browne of Belmont Excerpt from the minutes of the House of Lords meeting of June 24, 2006
  6. ↑ Lord Browne: 'The UK is alone in operating a tax system that ignores spousal obligations' ( Memento of the original of July 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Published on the Care website on July 18, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.care.org.uk
  7. ↑ Results 1-20 of 245 for speaker: Lord Browne of Belmont Publication at theyworkforyou , accessed July 14, 2013
  8. ^ The Norton View posted on Lord Norton of Louth's personal blog on June 7, 2013
  9. ↑ House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website , accessed May 20, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Browne, Wallace, Baron Browne of Belmont
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Browne, Wallace Hamilton, Baron Browne of Belmont (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish politician (DUP)
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast