Wallace Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont

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

The Right Honourable

The Lord Browne of Belmont
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
12 June 2006
Life Peerage
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Belfast East
In office
7 March 2007 – 2011
Preceded byMichael Copeland
Succeeded bySammy Douglas
50th Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office
2005–2006
Preceded byTom Ekin
Succeeded byPatrick McCarthy
Personal details
Born (1947-10-29) 29 October 1947
Political partyDemocratic Unionist Party
Alma materQueen's University Belfast

Political career

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]

Personal life

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]

See also

References
  1. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?pid=13878&s=section%3Adebates+section%3Awhall+section%3Alords+section%3Ani&pop=1. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/58012
  3. https://twitter.com/pccorry/status/979339102414934017
  4. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2018-09-05b.1854.1&s=veterans+speaker%3A13878#g1858.1
  5. https://belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/brexit-dublin-needs-to-recognise-who-its-real-friends-are-says-trimble-37410524.html
  6. https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/LLN-2017-0082
  7. https://www.care.org.uk/news/latest-news/northern-ireland-has-%E2%80%9Cextraordinary%E2%80%9D-rate-problem-gambling-says-northern-ireland
  8. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=2017-11-23a.345.2
  9. https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2020-01-07/debates/B2BFF52A-521B-462F-872F-B72989F52058/NorthernIreland(ExecutiveFormationEtc)Act2019Section3(5)#contribution-934703C0-7F5F-49D7-B18F-DF4D9DFB8335
  10. https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2019-10-28/debates/008F392C-2AE3-4E0F-9E3C-7A693D2B92FB/HistoricalInstitutionalAbuse(NorthernIreland)Bill(HL)#contribution-F11E78E6-1B79-44CB-9E26-1D95E029C05F
  11. https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2018-11-20/debates/6E1DCD35-2808-461D-8DA6-52491A5BA06F/BrexitNegotiations#contribution-DD970020-A3EC-4E42-A86C-524315BD78A0
  12. https://www.agendani.com/political-platform-wallace-browne-mla/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
Civic offices
Preceded by
Alan Crowe		 High Sheriff of Belfast
2002–2003		 Succeeded by
Margaret Clarke
Preceded by
Tom Ekin		 Lord Mayor of Belfast
2005–06		 Succeeded by
Patrick McCarthy
Northern Ireland Assembly
Preceded by
Michael Copeland		 MLA for Belfast East
2007–2011		 Succeeded by
Sammy Douglas
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by
The Lord Bradley		 Gentlemen
Baron Browne of Belmont 		Followed by
The Lord Low of Dalston
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