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Minister Of Home Affairs (Northern Ireland)
The Minister of Home Affairs was a member of the Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland (Cabinet (government), Cabinet) in the Parliament of Northern Ireland which governed Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1972. The Minister of Home Affairs was responsible for a range of non-economic domestic matters, although for a few months in 1953 the office was combined with that of the Minister of Finance. Under the Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1922, the Minister was enabled to make any regulation necessary to preserve or re-establish law and order in Northern Ireland. The act specifically entitled him to ban parades, meetings, and publications, and to forbid inquests. One of the position's more problematic duties was responsibility for parades in Northern Ireland under the Special Powers Act and from 1951 the Public Order Act (Northern Ireland) 1951, Public Order Act. Parading was (and is) extremely contentious in Northern Ireland, and so t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Executive Committee Of The Privy Council Of Northern Ireland
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John Millar Andrews
John Miller Andrews (17 July 1871 – 5 August 1956) was the second Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1940 to 1943. Family life Andrews was born in Comber, County Down, Ireland in 1871, the eldest child in the family of four sons and one daughter of Thomas Andrews, flax spinner, and his wife Eliza Pirrie, a sister of Viscount Pirrie, chairman of Harland and Wolff. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. In business, Andrews was a landowner, a director of his family linen-bleaching company and of the Belfast Ropeworks. His younger brother, Thomas Andrews, who died in the 1912 sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'', was managing director of the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast; another brother, Sir James Andrews, 1st Baronet, was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland. In 1902 he married Jessie (died 1950), eldest daughter of Bolton stockbroker Joseph Ormrod at Rivington Unitarian Chapel, Rivington, near Chorley, Lancashire, England. They had one son a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dick Megaw
Robert Dick Megaw (26 October 1867 – 2 May 1947) was an Irish barrister and a Unionist politician. Megaw was born in Ballymoney, Antrim, on 26 October 1867, the son of farmer John Megaw and Ellen Dick. He was educated at Ballymoney Intermediate School, the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Queen's College, Belfast and served as the 41st President of the Literary and Scientific Society (Queen's University Belfast). He practiced law in Dublin for a while, being called to the Irish Bar in 1893, and serving as Professor of Common Law at King's Inns there from 1912 to 1914. He was appointed King's Counsel in 1921. In 1921, he moved back to Belfast where he was elected to the Parliament of Northern Ireland as one of seven members for County Antrim, but was defeated in the general election of 1925. Megaw served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs from 1921 to 1925. Following the loss of his seat in Parliament, he was appointed by the Minister of Home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Anderson (politician)
Lieutenant Commander Albert Wesley Anderson (23 July 1907 – 18 June 1986) was the son of The Rt Hon. Sir Robert Newton Anderson and Lydia "Lily" Elizabeth Smith, a businessman, member of Londonderry Corporation and Mayor of Derry (from 1963 to 1968). Albert Anderson was born in Derry and educated at Foyle College and at Rydal School (Wales), followed by the University of Nottingham. He served as a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Member of Londonderry Borough Council until 1969. He was Mayor of Derry (and ''ex officio'' Member of the Senate of Northern Ireland) from 1963 to 1968. During this period, he was a leading figure in the unsuccessful campaign to site a new university in Derry. He was elected Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a Unionism in Ireland, unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Chichester-Clark
James Dawson Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola (12 February 1923 – 17 May 2002) was the penultimate Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and eighth leader of the Ulster Unionist Party between 1969 and March 1971. He was Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament for South Londonderry for 12 years, beginning at the by-election to replace his grandmother, Dame Dehra Parker in 1960. He stopped being an MP when the Stormont Parliament was suspended and subsequently abolished with the introduction of Direct Rule by the British Government. Chichester-Clark's election as UUP leader resulted from the sudden resignation of Terence O'Neill after the ambiguous result of the preceding general election. His term in office was dominated by both internal unionist struggles, seeing the political emergence of Ian Paisley from the right and Alliance Party of Northern Ireland from the left, and an emergent Irish nationalist resurgence. In March 1971, with his health suffering under the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Porter (Irish Politician)
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William Long (UK Politician)
William Joseph Long OBE (23 April 1922 – 10 February 2008) was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Early life Long was born in Stockton-on-Tees in England and studied at the Friends' School in Great Ayton, the Royal Veterinary College in Edinburgh and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He became an officer in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and was posted to Northern Ireland in 1940. While there, he married Doreen Mercer, a local doctor, and in 1942, the two settled in Northern Ireland.Anne McHardy,Obituary: William Long, ''The Guardian'', 11 April 2008 Long left the British Army in 1948 and became the Secretary of the Northern Ireland Marriage Guidance Council. In 1951, he became Secretary of the Northern Ireland Chest and Heart Association.Captain Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell
Robert William Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell (25 November 1922 – 25 October 2000) was an Ulster Unionist MP in the Northern Ireland House of Commons. Biography The grandson of Sir Robert McConnell, 1st Baronet, he was schooled at Sedbergh School and at Queen's University, Belfast where he read law, subsequently being called to the Bar of Northern Ireland. Starting off as a Junior Unionist, Brian McConnell attended the Conservative Conference in Brighton as an Ulster Unionist delegate in 1947, at which he made a warmly received address on one of the resolutions before the conference of over 3,500. He was first elected to Stormont at the 1953 Northern Ireland general election. In 1962 Lord Brookeborough appointed him Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance (Government Chief Whip), and after holding a junior office at the relatively new Ministry of Health, he became Minister of Home Affairs in 1964 in the government of Terence O'Neill. In 1966 however Ian Pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Craig (Northern Ireland Politician)
William Craig (2 December 1924 – 24 April 2011) was a Northern Irish unionist politician and solicitor, best known for forming the Unionist Vanguard movement. Early life From Cookstown, County Tyrone. His father William was a manager in the Ulster Bank, including the Ballyconnell branch between 1938-1941. Craig was educated at Royal School Dungannon, Larne Grammar School and Queen's University Belfast. After serving in the Royal Air Force (as a Lancaster bomber rear gunner) during World War II, he became a solicitor. Politics He was active in the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and led the Ulster Young Unionist Council. He was elected to the Stormont Parliament in a by-election in 1960 for Larne, and became a Minister in 1963. He held several portfolios under Terence O'Neill, eventually as Minister for Home Affairs. His most notable action while in this office was to ban the march of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association on 5 October 1968. He also accused the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Faulkner
Arthur Brian Deane Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick, (18 February 1921 – 3 March 1977), was the sixth and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, from March 1971 until his resignation in March 1972. He was also the Chief Executive of Northern Ireland, chief executive of the short-lived Northern Ireland Executive (1974), Northern Ireland Executive during the first half of 1974. Faulkner was also the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1971 to 1974. Early life Faulkner was born in Helen's Bay, County Down, Ireland, two months before the creation of Northern Ireland. The elder of two sons of James and Nora Faulkner. His younger brother was Colonel (British Army), Colonel Sir Dennis Faulkner, CBE VRD UD DL. James Faulkner owned the Belfast Collar Company which traded under the name Faulat. At that time, Faulat was the largest single-purpose shirt manufacturer in the world, employing some 3,000 people. Brian Faulkner was educated initially at Elm Park pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence O'Neill
Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Privy Council of Northern Ireland, PC (NI) (10 September 1914 – 12 June 1990), was the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and leader (1963–1969) of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). A moderate Unionism (Ireland), unionist who sought to reconcile sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland society and met with his counterpart in the Republic of Ireland, Irish Republic, he was a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for the Bannside (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), Bannside constituency from 1946 until his resignation in January 1970. Background Terence O'Neill was born on 10 September 1914 at 29 Ennismore Gardens, Hyde Park, London,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to The Honourable, The Hon, Arthur O'Neill and his wife Lady Annabel Hungerford Crewe-Milnes. O'Neill grew up in London and was educated at West Downs School, Winchester and Eton College. He spent summer holidays in Ulster. Following s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hanna (1906–1964)
George Boyle Hanna (1906–1 March 1964Ian McAllister and Richard Rose, ''United Kingdom Facts'', p.53) (PC (NI), was an Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland. He represented Belfast Duncairn from 1949 to 1956. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, he was the son of George Boyle Hanna. He was educated at Ballymena Academy, the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Queen's University Belfast, he was called to the Bar in 1927 and became a King's Counsel in 1946. He was Commissioner for the Unionist Party in Armagh from 1934 to 1941. He served in the Cabinet of Sir Basil Brooke as Minister of Home Affairs An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ... from 1953 to 1956 and then for five months in 1956 as Minister of Finance (''de facto'' Deputy Prime Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
