William Hacket Pain [SEP] date of death
William Pain
Brigadier-General Sir George William Hacket Pain, KBE, CB (5 February 1855 – 14 February 1924) was a British Army officer and Royal Irish Constabulary commissioner. He played a key part in setting up the Ulster Volunteers as a unionist militia during the Home Rule crisis of 1912, and was believed to have organised gun-running. At the outbreak of the First World War he served in command of a Brigade of the Ulster Division and commanding British forces in the north of Ireland. He served briefly
1922 South Londonderry by-election
The South Londonderry by-election of 1922 was held on 18 January 1922. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent UUP MP, Robert Chichester. It was won unopposed by the UUP candidate Sir William Hacket Pain.