About John Hanna Robb
Lived 1873 – 1956 (aged 82–83). John Hanna Robb was a British politician and barrister.
John Hanna Robb (4 November 1873 – 21 June 1956) was a Northern Irish barrister and Ulster Unionist Party politician.
The son of Rev. J. Gardner Robb, DD, LLD and Martha, daughter of Rev. John Hanna, of Ballymagowan House. Robb was born in Clogher and was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen's College, Belfast and called to the Bar at Gray's Inn and King's Inns, Dublin in 1898.
He was a Stormont MP for Queen's University from 1921 to 1937, following which he was Leader of the Senate of Northern Ireland and Minister for Education, becoming leader of the senate on 15 December 1937 until 1943. From 1939 to 1943, he was Father of the Northern Irish Bar. From 1943 until retirement in 1954 he sat as a County Court judge. with his wife Emily and their daughter.
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Who was John Hanna Robb?
British barrister and politician
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John Hanna Robb was born on 4 November 1873 in Clogher.
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John Hanna Robb died in 1956.
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John Hanna Robb was a politician and barrister.
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John Hanna Robb was British.
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