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About Julia McMordie
- Julia Gray McMordie (30 March 1860 – 12 April 1942) was an English-born Ulster Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland. McMordie was born in Hartlepool, County Durham, England, the daughter of shipbuilder Sir William Gray and Dorothy Gray (née Hall).
- Her father, who owned William Gray & Company, was elected mayor of Hartlepool in 1861 and 1862, and was the first mayor of West Hartlepool in 1887.
- He was knighted in 1890.
- A Presbyterian, she was educated at Chislehurst, Kent.
- On 8 April 1885, she married prominent Belfast barrister Robert James McMordie; the couple made their home at Cabin Hill, Knock, Belfast.
- Her brother was created a baronet in 1917 as Sir William Cresswell Gray, 1st Baronet of Tunstall Manor, Hartlepool. During the First World War, she was President of the St.
- John Voluntary Aid Detachments in Belfast.
- She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1918 New Year Honours, and upgraded to a Commander (CBE) in the 1919 New Year Honours.In 1921, McMordie was one of two women elected to the first Parliament of Northern Ireland, she represented South Belfast.
- She did not stand for re-election in 1925.
- In 1925, after she was widowed, she moved to East Cliff, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, in order to be near her family (a son, John Andrew, and daughter, Elsie Gray).
- She was the first female High Sheriff of Belfast (in 1928). She died, in 1942, at her daughter's home in Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire.
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