Title: Birnie (surname)
Content: Alexander Birnie, (1763–1835), Scottish merchant and shipowner ; David and Catherine Birnie, Australian husband and wife pair of serial killers ; Esmond Birnie (born 1965), author, economist, and Ulster Unionist Party politician ; George Birnie Esslemont (1860–1917), British Liberal politician ; Harry Charles Birnie (1882–1943), Scottish seaman, captain with the Cunard line and commodore in the Royal Navy Reserve ; James Birnie (1799–1864), Scottish fur trader in the Pacific Northwest ; John Birnie Philip (1824–1875), English sculptor of the 19th century ; Patricia Birnie (1926–2013), British lawyer ; Ted Birnie (1878–1935), professional footballer and manager ; Tessa Birnie (1934–2008), New Zealand-born Australian concert pianist ; William Birnie Rhind (1853–1933), Scottish sculptor Birnie is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: 
Title: Esmond Birnie
Content:  John Esmond Birnie is an economist, author and former politician. He was an MLA for Belfast South from 1998 until 2007. Birnie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He attended Ballymena Primary School and later Ballymena Academy. He studied Economics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge before completing a PhD at Queen’s University Belfast He was an unsuccessful Conservative Party candidate in the elections to Belfast City Council for Balmoral in the 1993 Northern Ireland Local Election. In the 2005 Northern Ireland Local Election, he stood again for Balmoral, this time for the Ulster Unionist Party and failed to get elected by 0.95 votes on the 
Title: Esmond Birnie
Content:  count. Birnie was also second on the Conservative regional list for the 1996 Forum Election, but was not elected as the party was 12th most popular in electoral support, and only the top 10 parties were eligible for two top up seats. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998. During the Assembly he was Chairman of the Assembly's Employment and Learning Committee. He retained his seat in 2003 but lost it in the 2007 elections. He was then employed as a special advisor to Employment and Learning Minister, Sir Reg Empey. He is now Chief Economist for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Northern Ireland.
Title: Alexander Birnie
Content:  cargo to ports in the southern hemisphere before engaging in sealing and whaling. Alexander Birnie was active in London as a philanthropist and a supporter of worthy causes. He was a director of the Royal Highland School Society. He was also an elder of the Scotch Church in Swallow Street. For many years he was a director of the London Missionary Society and he supplied missionaries and their families with free transport on his ships to the South Sea islands. He died at his home in Great Helen's Street on 15 February 1835, aged 72. He had married Ann Bayley in 1784 and they had at least nine children. His son, George, then took over as principal in the firm.
Title: Richard Birnie
Content:  He was a native of Banff, Aberdeenshire, born about 1760. After serving an apprenticeship to a saddler he came to London, and worked for the house of Macintosh & Co., in the Haymarket, saddlers and harness-makers to the royal family. In favour with the Prince of Wales, he was made foreman and eventually a partner in the business; he married the daughter of a wealthy baker. After his marriage Birnie rented a house in St Martin-in-the-Fields parish, and took part in parochial affairs. He established almshouses in Pratt Street, Camden Town. He also enrolled himself in the Royal Westminster Volunteers, in which he became a captain. At the request of the Duke of Northumberland he was placed in the commission of the peace, and began to frequent the Bow Street Magistrates' Court. In time 
Title: Richard Birnie (barrister)
Content:  post for nearly six years he acted as judge for about a year. Arriving in 1859 in Melbourne, he was called to the Victorian bar on 13 October the same year. He was on several occasions employed as crown prosecutor in Victoria, but has been mainly known as a contributor of several hundred essays to the Australasian. A selection of these were later published as, Essays Social, Moral and Political by a Barrister-at-law, (Melbourne, 1879). His father, Sir Richard Birnie, was originally a saddler, but is chiefly known by his success in detecting and hunting down the Cato Street conspirators.
Title: James Birnie
Content:  Birnie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1799, emigrating to Lower Canada at the age of sixteen. At Montreal he joined the North West Company, and was appointed to serve as a junior clerk.
Title: Birney Imes
Content:  Birney Imes III was born in 1951 in Columbus, Mississippi. His father, Vinton Birney Imes, Jr., owned the town newspaper, The Commercial Dispatch. His mother is Nancy McClanahan Imes. He attended desegregated public schools in Columbus and graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1973.
Title: Birney Imes
Content:  Birney Imes (born 1951) is an American photographer. He is best known for his photographs of the American South, especially his home state of Mississippi. His work is exhibited in museums across the United States.
Title: Birney Imes
Content:  He lives in Columbus, Mississippi with his wife Beth. They have three children: Peter, John and Tanner.

Question: What is George Birnie Esslemont's occupation?
Answer: politician.
political leader.
political figure.
polit.
pol.