John Taylor, Lord Kilclooney
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]
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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]
External Resources
- Deborah McAleese and Noel McAdam, I won’t apologise for saying IRA bombed McGurk’s Bar, says Lord Kilcooney, Belfast Telegraph, 9 July 2010.
Notes
- ↑ Lord Kilclooney, www.parliament.uk, accessed 9 July 2010.
- ↑ Lord Kilclooney, www.parliament.uk, accessed 9 July 2010.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.265.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.265.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.265.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.265.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.265.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.264-265.
- ↑ W.D. Flackes, Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, Blackstaff Press, 1989, p.265-266.
- ↑ Lord Kilclooney, www.parliament.uk, accessed 9 July 2010.
- ↑ Lord Kilclooney, www.parliament.uk, accessed 9 July 2010.
