John Taylor, Lord Kilclooney

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Not to be confused with the Conservative politican John Taylor

John Taylor, Lord Kilclooney is an Ulster Unionist member of the House of Lords.[1]

Taylor chaired the Queen's University Conservative and Unionist Association during 1959-60, and served on the Ulster Young Unionist Council during 1961-62.[2]

Stormont

He became the youngest Unionist MP in the Stormont parliament when he was returned for South Tyrone in 1965.[3]

He served as Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs in 1969-1970. In February 1969, he was one of 12 Unionist MPs who signed a statement calling for the resignation of Terence O'Neill, the UUP leader and Northern Ireland Prime Minister.[4]

He served as Minister of State for Home Affairs from 1970 to 1972. He underwent extensive plastic surgery after the Official IRA attempted to assassinate him in 1972.[5]

Direct Rule

Taylor served as Assembly member for Fermanagh-South Tyrone in 1973-74. In January 1974 he moved a motion against the Sunningdale Agreement at the Ulster Unionist Council. After this was carried, Brian Faulkner resigned as party leader.[6]

At a 12 July demonstration in Belfast in 1974, he called for a new Home Guard, "With or without London government legislation."[7]

European Parliament

Taylor was the Ulster Unionist MEP for Northern Ireland from 1979 to 1989.[8]

In 1987, he broke with the European Democratic Group because of its support for the Anglo-Irish Agreement and joined the European Right Group.[9]

UUP Deputy Leader

Taylor was Deputy Leader of the UUP from 1995 to 2001.[10]

House of Lords

Taylor was raised to the peerage as Baron Kilclooney, of Armagh in the County of Armagh 2001.[11]

Affiliations

External Resources

Notes

  1. Lord Kilclooney, www.parliament.uk, accessed 9 July 2010.
  2. Lord Kilclooney, www.parliament.uk, accessed 9 July 2010.
  3. W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.265.
  4. W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.265.
  5. W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.265.
  6. W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.265.
  7. W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.265.
  8. W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.264-265.
  9. W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.265-266.
  10. Lord Kilclooney, www.parliament.uk, accessed 9 July 2010.
  11. Lord Kilclooney, www.parliament.uk, accessed 9 July 2010.