Sir Henry Mulholland, 1st Baronet
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Sir Henry George Hill Mulholland, 1st Baronet PC
Privy Council of Northern Ireland
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 (20 December 1888 – 5 March 1971), was a Northern Ireland
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 politician.

Mulholland was the third son of Henry Lyle Mulholland, 2nd Baron Dunleath, and Norah Louisa Fanny Ward. He was a good cricket
Cricket
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er at Cambridge University and also played a first-class
First-class cricket
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 match for Ireland against Scotland in 1911.

He was a member of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland
House of Commons of Northern Ireland
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 for Down
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 and was Assistant Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Finance
Minister of Finance (Northern Ireland)
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 and Assistant Whip
Ulster Unionist Chief Whip
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 from 1925 until 1929, after which he served as Speaker of the House. He was admitted to the Privy Council of Northern Ireland
Privy Council of Northern Ireland
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 in 1930 and in 1945 he was created a Baronet, of Ballyscullion Park in the County of Londonderry.

Mulholland married Sheelah Brooke, daughter of Sir Arthur Brooke, 4th Baronet, and sister of Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough
Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough
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, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
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. He died in March 1971, aged 82, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Michael, who in 1993 succeeded his cousin as fifth Baron Dunleath.
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