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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Baronet" William Ewart Hand Signed 2X5 Card.
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Sir William Ewart, 1st Baronet (22 November 1817
– 1 August 1889) was an Irish linen manufacturer and Unionist
politician who sat in the House of
Commons from 1878 to 1889. Ewart was the son of William Ewart
of Sydenham Park County Down. He was educated at the Belfast Academy. He was a
linen manufacturer and merchant and became president of the Irish Linen Trade
Association. In 1859 he was mayor of Belfast and was also some time a member of
the Belfast Local Marine Board. He was a magistrate for Antrim and Belfast.
Ewart was Member of until the constituency was divided under the Redistribution of Seats
Act 1885, and then for the Northern
Division of Belfast until his death,[3] at which point Sir Edward Harland, Bt. was elected unopposed. Ewart was
created a baronet on 13
September 1887, of Glenmachan
House, in the parish of Holywood in the County of Down and of Glenbank, in the parish of Belfast in the County of Antrim.
Ewart married Isaella Kelso Mathewson daughter of Lavene Mathewson of
Newtownstewart, County Tyrone.
