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| rdfs:comment | - Brigadier-General Sir George William Hacket Pain KBE CB (5 February 1855 – 14 February 1924) was a British Army officer and Royal Irish Constabulary commissioner. He played a key part in setting up the Ulster Volunteers as a unionist militia during the Home Rule crisis of 1912, and was believed to have organised gun-running. At the outbreak of the First World War he served in command of a Brigade of the Ulster Division and commanding British forces in the north of Ireland. He served briefly as a Unionist Member of Parliament.
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| death place | - Osborne House, Isle of Wight
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| Name | - George William Hacket Pain
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| Title | - Member of Parliament for South Londonderry
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| Awards | - KBE, CB, Order of Medjidie 3rd class, Order of Osminieh 3rd class
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| Years | - January – October 1922
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| laterwork | - RIC Commander, MP for South Londonderry
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| placeofburial | - Whippingham, Isle of Wight
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| abstract | - Brigadier-General Sir George William Hacket Pain KBE CB (5 February 1855 – 14 February 1924) was a British Army officer and Royal Irish Constabulary commissioner. He played a key part in setting up the Ulster Volunteers as a unionist militia during the Home Rule crisis of 1912, and was believed to have organised gun-running. At the outbreak of the First World War he served in command of a Brigade of the Ulster Division and commanding British forces in the north of Ireland. He served briefly as a Unionist Member of Parliament.
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