Wallace Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont
- Wallace Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont
Wallace Hamilton Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont is a Northern Irish politician in the Democratic Unionist Party.
He was Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2005-6, and it was announced on 11 April 2006 that he would be one of the first three members of the DUP to be created a life peer, giving the party its first representation in the House of Lords. The other two are Maurice Morrow, the chairman of the DUP, and Eileen Paisley, a vice-president of the DUP and wife of the Leader of the DUP, Ian Paisley; all became "working" life peers. At the same time, it was announced that David Trimble, former MP and former leader of the Ulster Unionists, was also being appointed as a working life peer. Browne was raised to the peerage as Baron Browne of Belmont, of Belmont in County Antrim on 12 June 2006.
In 2007 he was elected in the Assembly elections for the East Belfast seat.
Browne is a graduate of Queen's University, Belfast, and is a retired school teacher. He has been a member of Belfast City Council for the Victoria ward since 1985.
ee also
* List of Northern Ireland Members of the House of Lords
External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4897808.stm Four new unionist peers appointed] , "BBC News", 11 April 2006
* [http://www.dup.org.uk/CanProfile.asp?CandidateID=149 DUP biography]
* [http://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/news/news.asp?id=612&month=November%202006 Belfast City Council - Former Lord Mayor's Portrait Unveiled]
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