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John Morrow Simms CB CMG (23 November 1854 – 29 April 1934) was a Presbyterian minister and unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Biography

Born in Newtownards, Simms studied at the Belfast Academy, the Coleraine Academical Institution, Queen's University, Belfast, the University of Edinburgh and Leipzig University. In 1882, he was ordained as a Presbyterian Church in Ireland clergyman, and became a British Army chaplain in 1887. He was elected for the Ulster Unionist Party at the July 1922 North Down by-election, and when the seat was abolished later in the year, won a seat in Down, serving until the 1931 UK general election. From 1914 to 1920, he was Principal Chaplain to the Forces, and held rank relative to major-general.^[1] He subsequently became Honorary Chaplain to George V of the United Kingdom.^[2]

Presbyterian Church titles
Preceded by James McGranahan (1918)	Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1919	Succeeded by Hugh Patterson Glenn (1920)
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Henry Wilson	Member of Parliament for North Down 1922–1922	constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Down 1922–1931 With: David Reid	Succeeded by Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart David Reid