Sir Henry Mulholland, 1st Baronet

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

Sir Henry Mulholland, 1st Baronet

Personal information
Full name	Henry George Hill Mulholland
Born	20 December 1888 Bellaghy, Ireland
Died	5 March 1971(1971-03-05) (aged 82) Bellaghy, Northern Ireland
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm slow
Relations	Godfrey Mulholland (brother)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1911–1914	Cambridge University
1911	Ireland
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 32 Runs scored 1,642 Batting average 30.40 100s/50s 4/9 Top score 153 Balls bowled 2,007 Wickets 51 Bowling average 23.86 5 wickets in innings 2 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 5/9 Catches/stumpings 37/–
Source: Cricinfo, 3 January 2022

Mulholland was the third son of The 2nd Baron Dunleath and Norah Louisa Fanny Ward. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1] He was a good cricketer at Cambridge University where he won a Blue for cricket in three seasons from 1911 to 1913, and he also played a first-class match for Ireland against Scotland in 1911.^[2][3]

He was a member of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for Down and was Assistant Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Finance and Assistant Whip from 1925 until 1929,^[4] after which he served as Speaker of the House. He was admitted to the Privy Council of Northern Ireland in 1930 and in 1945 he was created a Baronet, of Ballyscullion Park in the County of Londonderry.

Mulholland married Sheelah Brooke (1895-1982), daughter of Sir Arthur Brooke, 4th Baronet, and sister of The 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. 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.

References

1. MULHOLLAND, Rt Hon. Sir Henry George Hill, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014, accessed 13 Nov 2016)
2. Gerard Siggins (2005), Green Days: Cricket in Ireland 1792-2005. Dublin:Nonsuch Publishing.
3. "Henry Mulholland". Cricinfo. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
4. The Government of Northern Ireland

External links

• CricketArchive: Henry Mulholland
• "Mulholland, Hon. Henry George Hill" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. 173  – via Wikisource.

Parliament of Northern Ireland
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Down 1921–1929 With: J. M. Andrews James Craig Éamon de Valera Thomas Lavery Robert McBride Thomas McMullan Patrick O'Neill	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Ards 1929–1945	Succeeded by Robert Perceval-Maxwell
Preceded by Hon. Hugh O'Neill	Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons 1929–1945	Succeeded by Sir Norman Stronge
Political offices
Preceded by Thomas Henry Burn	Assistant Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance 1925–1929	Succeeded by Sir Basil Brooke
Party political offices
Preceded by Thomas Henry Burn	Unionist Assistant Whip 1925–1929	Succeeded by Sir Basil Brooke
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Ballyscullion Park) 1945–1971	Succeeded by Michael Henry Mulholland
Honorary titles
Preceded by Sir Dudley McCorkell	Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry 1960–1965	Succeeded by John Cherry Drennan