Wallace Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont

The Lord Browne of Belmont MLA
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast East
In office 7 March 2007 – 2011
Preceded by	Michael Copeland
Succeeded by	Sammy Douglas
50th Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office 2005–2006
Preceded by	Tom Ekin
Succeeded by	Patrick McCarthy
Personal details
Born	29 October 1947 (age 66)
Political party	Democratic Unionist Party
Alma mater	Queen's University Belfast
Religion	Protestant

Wallace Hamilton Browne, Baron Browne of Belmont (born 29 October 1947) is a Northern Irish politician in the Democratic Unionist Party.

He was Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2005-06, and it was announced on 11 April 2006 that he would be one of the first three members of the DUP to be created a life peer, giving the party its first representation in the House of Lords. The other two are Maurice Morrow, the chairman of the DUP, and Eileen Paisley, a vice-president of the DUP and wife of the then Leader of the DUP, Ian Paisley; all became "working" life peers. At the same time, it was announced that David Trimble, former MP and former leader of the Ulster Unionists, was also being appointed as a working life peer. Browne was raised to the peerage as Baron Browne of Belmont, of Belmont in County Antrim on 12 June 2006.

In 2007 he was elected in the Assembly elections for the East Belfast seat.

Browne is a graduate of Queen's University, Belfast, and is a retired school teacher. He has been a member of Belfast City Council for the Victoria electoral area since 1985.

See also

• List of Northern Ireland Members of the House of Lords

External links

• Four new unionist peers appointed, BBC News, 11 April 2006
• DUP biography
• Belfast City Council - Former Lord Mayor's Portrait Unveiled