John Simms (clergyman)

{{Short description|British clergyman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Reverend | name = John Morrow Simms | honorific_suffix = | image = The Rev John Morrow Simms, Dd, Cmg, Principal Chaplain Bef Art.IWMART1824.jpg | order = | constituency_MP = Down<br />{{small|North Down (July–November 1922)}} | alongside = David Reid (November 1922-1931) | term_start = 21 July 1922 | term_end = 7 October 1931 | predecessor = Henry Wilson | successor = {{hlist|James Little|Viscount Castlereagh}} | birth_date = {{Birth date |1854|11|23|df=y}} | birth_place = Newtownards, Ireland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1934|04|29|1854|11|23|df=y}} | death_place = Belfast, Northern Ireland | party = Ulster Unionist Party | majority = | alma_mater = Queen's University Belfast <br /> University of Edinburgh <br /> Leipzig University | spouse = | children = | profession = Clergyman <br /> Soldier }}

'''John Morrow Simms''' {{post-nominal|country=GBR|CB|CMG|DD|LLD}} (23 November 1854 – 29 April 1934) was a Presbyterian minister and unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

== Biography == Born in Newtownards, Simms studied at the Belfast Academy, the Coleraine Academical Institution, Queen's University, Belfast, the University of Edinburgh and Leipzig University. In 1882, he was ordained as a Presbyterian Church in Ireland clergyman, and became a British Army chaplain in 1887. He was elected for the Ulster Unionist Party at the July 1922 North Down by-election, and when the seat was abolished later in the year, won a seat in Down, serving until the 1931 UK general election. From 1914 to 1920, he was Principal Chaplain to the Forces, and held rank relative to major-general.<ref name="LG 29420">{{London Gazette |issue= 29420 |date= 28 December 1915 |page= 13010}}</ref> He subsequently became Honorary Chaplain to George V of the United Kingdom.<ref>John F. Harbinson, ''The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973'', p. 185</ref>

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== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | very-reverend-dr-john-simms | John Simms }} * {{cite TIWW |article=Simms, Rt. Rev. John Morrow |page= 232}}

{{s-start}} {{s-rel|pres}} {{succession box| before=James McGranahan (1918)| title=Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland| years=1919| after=Hugh Patterson Glenn (1920)}} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-bef | before = Henry Wilson }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for North Down | years = 1922–1922 }} {{s-non | reason = constituency abolished }} {{s-new | constituency }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Down | with = David Reid | years = 1922–1931 }} {{s-aft | after = Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart | after2 = David Reid }} {{s-end}}

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