Background
Haslett was the son of the Review Henry Haslett of Castlereagh, company
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James Haslett
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He was educated at Academical Institute Belfast and became a chemist and druggist. He was an alderman, and a Justice of the Peace (Justice of the Peace) of Belfast. He held the seat until 1886.
He was mayor of Belfast in 1887 and knighted in the same year.
He was mayor again in 1888. He returned to the House of Commons at a by-election in January 1896 as Member of Parliament for Belfast North.
He was re-elected in 1900, and held the seat until his death in 1905, aged 73. Haslett married Annie Rea of London in 1877.
Membership
23rd United Kingdom Parliament. 26th United Kingdom Parliament. 27th United Kingdom Parliament]
At the 1885 general election Haslett was elected Member of Parliament for Belfast West.
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Political Party
Conservative Party