Alexander Browne

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|name = Alexander Browne

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Belfast West

|term_start = 27 October 1931

|term_end = 11 December 1942

|predecessor = W.E.D. Allen

|successor = Jack Beattie

|party = Ulster Unionist Party

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|death_date = 11 December 1942

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Captain Alexander Crawford Browne (died 11 December 1942) was an Ulster Unionist Party politician.{{cite news |title=Death of M.P. |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000265/19421218/056/0006 |accessdate=21 June 2018 |work=Western Times |date=18 December 1942 |page=6}}

Crawford Browne attended Methodist College Belfast from 1873 to 1880. He served in the 36th (Ulster) Division from 1914 to 1919 and became a Captain in 1917. In 1924 he was elected as a Belfast City Councillor before becoming a councillor for Princeton Ward in Bangor in 1927.{{cite book|last1=Henderson|first1=JW|title=Methodist College Belfast 1868–1938 a Survey and Retrospect Volume One|date=1939|publisher=Methodist College Belfast|location=Belfast|page=48}} He was elected at the 1931 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast West, and held the seat until his death.{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 |origyear=1969 |edition= 3rd |year=1983 |publisher=Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn=0-900178-06-X |page=564}}

In 1935, he married Dorothy Dawson. Dorothy was from a family of eight who also attended Methodist College Belfast.{{cite book|last1=Henderson|first1=JW|title=Methodist College Belfast 1868-1938 a Survey and Retrospect Volume One|date=1939|publisher=Methodist College Belfast|location=Belfast|page=48}}

His death triggered a by-election in February 1943, when the formerly safe Unionist seat was won by the Northern Ireland Labour Party candidate Jack Beattie.