Elizabeth Maconachie

Elizabeth Hamill Maconachie, known as Bessie Maconachie, was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Maconachie studied at Queen's University Belfast, then worked as a schoolteacher. At the 1953 Northern Ireland general election, she was elected to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP for the Queen's University of Belfast seat. One of only a very few women to serve at Stormont, she held her seat until its abolition in 1969.[1] She was on the more liberal wing of the UUP, and favoured some reform.[2]

Maconachie was a member of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,[3] In the 1970s, Maconachie served as Chairman of the Unionist Society.[4]

References
  1. Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons
  2. Conn McCluskey, Up off their knees, p.91
  3. Dorothy V. Hall, Making Things Happen, p.130
  4. Irish historical studies, Issues 129-130, p.106
Parliament of Northern Ireland
Preceded by
Irene Calvert
Samuel Irwin
Eileen M. Hickey
Frederick Lloyd-Dodd		 Member of Parliament for Queen's University of Belfast
1953–1969
With: Eileen M. Hickey to 1958
Samuel Irwin to 1961
Frederick Lloyd-Dodd to 1962
Charles Stewart from 1958–1966
Sheelagh Murnaghan from 1961
Ian McClure from 1962
Robert Porter from 1966		 Constituency abolished


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