Frederick MacSorley or McSorley FRCPI (1892 – 9 February 1948) was a Belfast-based Irish surgeon and independent member of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland.
[1] He unsuccessfully stood as an independent for Queen's University of Belfast before being elected in July 1945.
[2][1] MacSorley came from a middle-class Belfast Catholic family with deep clerical and medical connections – one brother was a member of the Redemptorist order, a sister a nun and several cousins and brothers also doctors.
[3] At his funeral, Bishop Daniel Mageean presided and the Archbishop of Armagh John D'Alton attended.
Significantly, the Unionist Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough was represented by Mr W.N.