Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Personal Computer was a Northern Ireland Unionist politician.
Background
He was born in Belfast, the fourth son of Sir Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet, and educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before being commissioned into the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, with which regiment he served in the Second Boer War.
Education
Harrow School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Career
He was also sent to the Northern Ireland House of Commons in 1921 as a member for Belfast East, being appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, and was finally elected member for the seat of Belfast Bloomfield in 1929. Dixon was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1919 and admitted to the Privy Council of Northern Ireland in 1923. In 1939 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Glentoran, of Ballyalloly in the County of Down.
He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance and Government Chief Whip from 1921–1942 and as Minister of Agriculture in the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1941 to 1943.
Lord Glentoran married the Honorary Emily Ina Florence Bingham, daughter of Arthur Bingham, 6th Baron Clanmorris, in 1905.
Lady Glentoran died in 1957.
Membership
31st United Kingdom Parliament. 32nd United Kingdom Parliament. 33rd United Kingdom Parliament.
34th United Kingdom Parliament.
35th United Kingdom Parliament. 36th United Kingdom Parliament.
37th United Kingdom Parliament]
After fighting with the British Army in the First World War, Dixon was elected Unionist Member of Parliament for the seat of Belfast Pottinger in 1918, becoming representative for Belfast East four years later.