Margaret Waring

Who was Margaret Waring?

Margaret Alicia Waring was an Ulster Unionist Party politician.

The daughter of Joseph Charlton Parr of Grappallhen Heyes, Warrington, she married Major Holt Waring of Waringstown, County Down in 1914. He was killed in action at Kemmel Hill, 18 April 1918m and the couple had no children.

She lived at her late husband's estate, Waringstown. She was elected as the MP for Iveagh in 1929, but stood down at the next election, in 1933. The Waringstown estate was inherited by her nephew, Michael Harnett, Esq., who still resides there.