Hugh MacDowell Pollock
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Hugh MacDowell Pollock, CH, PC was an Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 until his death in 1937, being appointed as the country's first Minister of Finance.
Pollock (third from right) in 1921
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, PC, PC, DL, was a leading Irish unionist and a key architect of Northern Ireland as a devolved region within the United Kingdom. During the Home Rule Crisis of 191
Hugh MacDowell Pollock
…general election he was elected in Belfast South and was immediately appointed as Northern Ireland's first Minister of Finance and deputy premier to James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon. The constituency was abolished in 1929; thus, Pollock moved to represent Belfast Windsor, and served until his death in 1937. The optimistic economic…
Craig in 1917
Craig caricatured by WHO for Vanity Fair, 1911
Time cover, 26 May 1924