Elizabeth Hamill Maconachie, known as Bessie Maconachie, was a unionist politician

Politician

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 in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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Maconachie studied at Queen's University Belfast, then worked as a schoolteacher. At the Northern Ireland general election, 1953

Northern Ireland general election, 1953

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, she was elected as an Ulster Unionist Party

Ulster Unionist Party

The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...

 (UUP) MP for the Queen's University, Belfast seat. One of only a very few women to serve at Stormont, she held her seat until its abolition in 1969

Northern Ireland general election, 1969

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. She was on the more liberal wing of the UUP, and favoured some reform.

Maconachie was a member of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, In the 1970s, Maconachie served as Chairman of the Unionist Society.