Robert Lynn (Northern Ireland politician)

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Sir
Robert John Lynn
Lynn in 1923
Member of Parliament
for Belfast West
Belfast Woodvale (1918–1922)
In office
14 December 1918 – 10 May 1929
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byWilliam Edward David Allen
Personal details
Born(1873-01-31)31 January 1873
Died5 August 1945(1945-08-05) (aged 72)
Political partyUlster Unionist

Sir Robert John Lynn (31 January 1873 – 5 August 1945)[1] was a British Ulster Unionist Party politician. In March 1924[2] he was knighted.[3]

Parliamentary career

He was elected as the

Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast Woodvale from 1918 general election to 1922,[4] and when that constituency was abolished for the 1922 general election he was returned for Belfast West, holding the seat until he stood down at the 1929 general election.[5]

At the

Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons
.

Journalistic career

Lynn was the editor of the

Lord Londonderry—the Education Minister at the time—persuaded him to support the measure making the latter one of the few public proponents of what amounted to nondenominational schooling.[9]

In 1902, the

Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Education in Northern Ireland).[10]

While Roman Catholic representatives boycotted the committee, Lynn recommended government funding for a separate Roman Catholic education system in Northern Ireland. When the Lynn Committee published its report in 1923, its recommendations were adopted and made law by the Education Bill (NI) of 1923.

On the difficulties of their dealings with the Roman Catholic hierarchy, the Lynn Committee said this in their report:

"We hope that, notwithstanding the disadvantage at which we were placed by this action, it will be found that Roman Catholic interests have not suffered. We have throughout been careful to keep in mind and to make allowance for the particular points of view of Roman Catholics in regard to education so far as is known to us, and it has been our desire to refrain as far as we could from recommending any course which might be thought to be contrary to their wishes."

— Lynn Committee report, 1923

The Bill was bitterly assailed[11] by both Catholic and Protestant clerics and was subsequently amended so that its original intent disappeared.[12][13]

References

  1. ^ "The Voter's Self Defense System". Vote Smart. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Supplement to London Gazette, 8 February 1924". p. 1262. Retrieved 26 December 2007. [dead link]
  3. ^ "London Gazette, 4th March 1924". p. 1922. Retrieved 26 December 2007. [dead link]
  4. ^ a b Leigh Rayment. "Historical list of MPs: W, part 5". Leigh Rayment's Peerage pages. Archived from the original on 31 December 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ISBN 0-900178-06-X
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  6. doi:10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_54012
  7. ^ Akenson, Donald (1973). Education and Enmity. Queen's University, Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies. p. 51.
  8. ^ "Lynn Committee and the 1923 law". qub.ac.uk. Queen's University Belfast.
  9. ^ Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  10. ^ Morrison, John (1993). The Ulster Cover-Up.
  11. ^ "Lord Londonderry & Education Reform in 1920s Northern Ireland". History Ireland. 11 February 2013. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  12. ^ N.C. Fleming, 'The first government of Northern Ireland, education reform and the failure of anti-populist unionism, 1921–1925', Twentieth Century British History, vol. 18, no. 2 (2007), pp. 146–169
  13. ^ "Legislation.gov.uk". www.legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2020.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency
Member of Parliament for Belfast Woodvale
1918–1922
 constituency abolished
New constituency
Member of Parliament for Belfast West
1922–1929
 Succeeded by
Parliament of Northern Ireland
New constituency
Member of Parliament for Belfast West
1921–1929
With: Joseph Devlin
Thomas Henry Burn to 1925
William J. Twaddell to 1923
Philip James Woods from 1923
William McMullen
from 1925 		Constituency abolished
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1929–1945 		Succeeded by
William McCleery
Political offices
Preceded by Chairman of Ways and Means and
Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons

1937–1945 		Succeeded by
Howard Stevenson
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