Mr. Justice Thomas Watters Brown, Q.C.

Mr. Justice Thomas Watters Brown, P.C. (Privy Council of Ireland) of Ben Ingan, Donaghadee, County Down was a Northern Irish lawyer and politician.

He was born in Newtownards in 1879, and was educated at Campbell College Belfast and Queen’s University. Called to the bar in 1907, he became a King’s Counsel (K.C.) in February 1818.

He was elected Member of Parliament for North Down in 1918 and was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in June 1921. On 5th August of the same year he was promoted to Attorney-General for Ireland. He was the last holder of both offices.

He resigned as Attorney General for Ireland in December 1921, and served as a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland from 1922 until his death in 1944.

He became a member of the Lodge of Research in 1918.

Mr. Justice Thomas Watters Brown, P.C.
(17th March, 1879 – 7th October, 1944)