It is the editor’s theory that Posnett Court takes its name from Hutcheson Posnett, a land agent who is recorded in the Belfast Street Directory (1843) as owing land and living in Donegall Pass. “Posnett, Hutcheson, Land Agent, Master in Chancery for the Counties of Antrim & Down & Commissioner in Queen’s Bench for the County Antrim, residence, Rose Lodge, Donegall Pass.” H. Posnett was a Belfast town councillor, his name features in accounts of meetings in the 1840s.