Hugh Morrison (Northern Ireland politician)

He was born in County Londonderry, the second son of Hugh Morrison J.P. of Moneydig.{{cite book|last=Carty|first=James|title=Bibliography of Irish History 1912-1921|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t36-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA23|accessdate=9 September 2018|date=2012-03-30|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|isbn=9781781514832|page=23}}{{cite news|title=Marriages|date=20 December 1884|work=Northern Constitution|page=8}} He was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution, and studied in the Royal University of Ireland, in Queen's College, Belfast and the College of Surgeons, Dublin. In 1884 he graduated M.D., with a diploma L.R.C.S.{{cite book|last=Harbinson|first=John F.|title=The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882–1973|year=1973|publisher=Blackstaff Press|location=Belfast|isbn=0856400769|page=[https://archive.org/details/ulsterunionistpa00john_0/page/202 202]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/ulsterunionistpa00john_0/page/202}}Dr. Hugh Smith Morrison. The British Medical Journal, vol. 1, no. 3570, 1929, p. 1063. {{JSTOR|25332789}}

Going into private medical practice in County Londonderry, Morrison was also involved in Unionist politics there. He lived at Aghadowey.{{cite book|last=Bolton|first=Charles Knowles|title=Scotch Irish Pioneers In Ulster And America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fmh8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1552|accessdate=9 September 2018|date=2013-04-16|publisher=Read Books Limited|isbn=9781446549261|page=1552}} He later became coroner for Coleraine. A Presbyterian, he was active in General Assembly meetings, and also took part in medical societies as a reformer. When Denis Henry, a Catholic, stood for the South Londonderry constituency in the Westminster parliament, Morrison endorsed him.{{cite book|last=McDonnell|first=A. D.|title=The Life of Sir Denis Henry: Catholic Unionist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AyVHN1OULVYC&pg=PA133|accessdate=9 September 2018|year=2000|publisher=Ulster Historical Foundation|isbn=9780901905949|page=133}}

From 1921, Morrison represented for the as Ulster Unionist Party the Queen's University constituency, in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and Stormont Parliament, and supported the introduction of the Special Powers Act 1922.{{cite book|last=Rapoport|first=David C.|title=Terrorism: The second or anti-colonial wave|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-r5Q2705HAC&pg=PA294|accessdate=9 September 2018|year=2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780415316521|page=294}} In the debate on the Criminal Law Amendment Act (Northern Ireland) 1923, he commented on sexual morality in Belfast, as "a very dark picture" below the surface.Review by Sandra McAvoy, Reviewed Work: Regulating Sexuality: Women in Twentieth-Century Northern Ireland by Leanne McCormick, The Irish Review (1986–) No. 45 (Autumn 2012), pp. 85–87, at p. 85. Published by: Cork University Press. {{JSTOR|23350142}}

Morrison died at his home, Blackhill, Coleraine, on 21 May 1929.

• Modern Ulster, its Character, Customs, Politics and Industries (1920).{{cite book|last1=Boyce|first1=D. George|last2=Eccleshall|first2=Dr Robert|last3=Eccleshall|first3=Robert, Vincent Geoghegan|title=Political Thought in Ireland Since the Seventeenth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pnCIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA208|accessdate=9 September 2018|date=2008-03-07|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134981373|page=208}} Topics included the Orange Institution, Ulster Volunteers, and Irish Presbyterianism.

Morrison married in 1884 Louisa Jane Whitley, only daughter of the late David Whitley of Ballymena. They were both buried in the graveyard at Aghadowey parish church, as were two sons.{{cite web|url=http://genealogy.torrens.org/BannValley/church/AghadoweyCOI/Graves.html|title=Aghadowey Parish Church, Graveyard Records, Co. Derry, NI|accessdate=9 September 2018}}

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• [https://archive.org/stream/modernulsteritsc20morr#page/n9/mode/1up Modern Ulster; its character, customs, politics, and industries (1920), by H. S. Morrison, with illustrations, on Internet Archive], with photograph of the author (copyright status unclear)
• {{cite TIWW |article= Morrison, Hugh S.|page=171 }}

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