John Clarke Davison

Who was John Clarke Davison?

John Clarke Davison was a barrister and Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Davison was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution and Trinity College, Dublin and was called to the Irish Bar in 1898. He was a legal adviser to the Government of Northern Ireland from 1922–1925, and Senior Crown Prosecutor for County Louth and County Antrim. In 1925, he was elected in a by-election as a Unionist to the Parliament of Northern Ireland from County Armagh, and then from 1929 from Mid-Armagh until resigning his seat shortly after the 1938 general election upon appointment as Recorder of Londonderry.

He was Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from March - June 1937 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs from 1937 - 1938. He died on 19 February 1946.