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Newtownards (/ ˌ n juː t ən ˈ ɑːr d z /; Irish: Baile Nua na hArda [1]) is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies at the most northern tip of Strangford Lough , 10 miles (16 km) east of Belfast , on the Ards Peninsula .
Election First member First party Second member Second party 1613 George Conyngham, Loghriscoll : James Cathcart, Ballenyane : 1634 Hugh Montgomery, Master of the Ardes Edward Trevor
Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne was born at Newtownards, County Down, Ireland, the third son and sixth of seven children of a staunch Presbyterian family of Scottish extraction, among whom was Sir William Mayne Lord Newhaven, an 18th century British policitian. [4]
Newtownards is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic baronies of Ards Lower and Castlereagh Lower. [1] Settlements
In 1882, he was ordained as a Presbyterian Church in Ireland clergyman, and became a British Army chaplain in 1887. He was elected for the Ulster Unionist Party at the July 1922 North Down by-election , and when the seat was abolished later in the year, won a seat in Down , serving until the 1931 UK general election .
Ards was a county constituency comprising the town of Newtownards, the Ards peninsula and the town of Donaghadee.It was created in 1929 when the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 introduced first past the post elections throughout Northern Ireland.
The building was commissioned by Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry to be the centre of the market town, a role previously undertaken by Newtownards Priory. [2] It was designed by Ferdinando Stratford in a Grecian-Doric style and built of Scrabo stone between 1767 and 1771.
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