Robert Lynn

Sir Robert John Lynn (1873 – 5 August 1945)cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/wcommons5.htm |title=Historical list of MPs: W, part 5 |author=Leigh Rayment |work=Leigh Rayment's Peerage pages |date= |accessdate=2007-12-26] was an Ulster Unionist Party politician.

He was elected at the Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast Woodvale from 1918 general election to 1922, and when that constituency was abolished for the 1922 general election he was returned for Belfast West, holding the seat until he stood down at the 1929 general election.cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 |origyear=1969 |edition= 3rd edition |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn=090017806X |page=p.654]

At the 1921 Northern Irish general election Lynn was elected as a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Belfast West,cite news |url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=32906&geotype=London&gpn=1262&type=ArchivedSupplementPage&all=&exact=Robert%20John%20Lynn&atleast=&similar= |title=Supplement to London Gazette, 8 February 1924 |author= |work= |date= |accessdate=2007-12-26 |page=p.1262] holding that seat until it was abolished for the 1929 Northern Irish general election. He was elected for the new North Antrim constituency, and held that seat until 1945. From 1937 to 1944 he was Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons.

Lynn was knighted in March 1924. [cite news |url=http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ViewPDF.aspx?pdf=32915&geotype=London&gpn=1922&type=ArchivedIssuePage&all=&exact=Robert%20John%20Lynn&atleast=&similar= |title=London Gazette, 4th March 1924 |author= |work= |date= |accessdate=2007-12-26 |page=p. 1922]

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