Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell

Robert William Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell (* November 25, 1922, † 25 October 2000) was the Ulster Unionist Party, a Member of Parliament in the Northern Ireland House of Commons.

He was a grandson of Sir Robert McConnell, 1st Baronet. He went to Sedbergh School in Cumbria and the Queen's University in Belfast, where he studied law and was eventually picked up by the Bar of Northern Ireland.

As a junior Unionist, he took part in the 1947 conference of the Conservative party in Brighton, in which he gave a well- received speech to one of the resolutions before 3500 listeners. He was first elected at the Northern Ireland election of 1953, the Parliament of Northern Ireland. 1962 appointed him Lord Brookeborough the Parliamentary Secretary of the Treasury (Government Chief Whip ), and after a temporary activity at the then very new Ministry of Health, he was Minister of Home Affairs in 1964.

1966 Ian Paisley led a protest action for the appointment of a new moderator in the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. It was the Governor of Northern Ireland, Lord Erskine assaulted upon entering the building, which led only to a deterioration of his health and finally his death. McConnell, who was at that time in London was held responsible, and therefore went out the opportunity to be selected for key positions.

McConnell was always a close confidant of James Molyneaux and was raised on 15 February 1995 as Baron McConnell of Lisburn in the County of Antrim in the peerage, possibly because Prime Minister John Major was dependent on the votes of the Ulster Unionist Party to to be able to continue his minority government. Molyneaux was criticized after the appointment of McConnell because of his age, because it was thought that a younger candidate could be nominated. McConnel was, until his death on 25 October 2000, an active member of the House of Lords.