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Minister Of Commerce For Northern Ireland
The Minister of Commerce was a member of the Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland (Cabinet) in the Parliament of Northern Ireland which governed Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1972. The post was combined with that of the Minister of Agriculture until 1925. In 1943, it was renamed Minister of Commerce and Production and was combined with the post of Prime Minister of Northern Ireland until 1945, then with Leader of the Senate of Northern Ireland until 1949. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce (and Production) *1921 – 1925 Robert McKeown *1925 – 1941 vacant *1941 – 1943 Sir Wilson Hungerford *1943 – 1945 Brian Maginess *1945 vacant *1945 – 1949 Robert Perceval-Maxwell Major John Robert Perceval-Maxwell (1896–1963) was an Ulster Unionist Party politician from Northern Ireland. Perceval-Maxwell was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was called to the Bar but did not pract ... *1949 - 1952 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Executive Committee Of The Privy Council Of Northern Ireland
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Jack Andrews
Sir John Lawson Ormrod Andrews (15 July 1903 – 12 January 1986) was a member of both the Northern Ireland House of Commons and the Senate of Northern Ireland. Son of Prime Minister J. M. Andrews, he was educated at Moure Grange Preparatory School, County Down, and Shrewsbury School. Andrews entered Parliament as MP for Mid Down in 1953 (replacing his father), a seat which he represented until his resignation in 1964, when he was elected to the Senate where he sat until the Parliament was prorogued in 1972. His election to the senate was following a cabinet reshuffle, in which Andrews accepted demotion to the politically unimportant position of Government Minister in the Senate. He held several Cabinet positions, including Minister in the Senate from 1964 and Deputy Prime Minister from May 1969. He was a contender for the position of Prime Minister on the retirement of Lord Brookeborough, but when it became clear that Terence O'Neill had a comfortable lead over both Andrew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 Establishments In Northern Ireland
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John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough
John Warden Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough, PC (NI) (9 November 1922 – 5 March 1987) was a Northern Irish politician. He was the son of Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Early life He was educated at Eton College. During the Second World War he served in the British Army in North Africa, Italy and Germany. He was on the personal staff of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander (later created Lord Alexander). He was an Aide-de-Camp to Field Marshal Lord Wavell, the Viceroy of India, early in 1947. In 1934, his father claimed in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland at Stormont that there had been a plot to kidnap the young John Brooke by Irish Republicans during Sir Basil Brooke's time as Commandant of the Ulster Special Constabulary. This report led Sir Basil (as he then was) to dismiss every Catholic worker in his employ, for which he was accused of sectarianism.Northern Ireland House of Commons Official Report, Vol 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Kennedy Fitzsimmons
William Kennedy Fitzsimmons (31 January 1909 – 21 February 1992) was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Born in Belfast, Fitzsimmons studied at Skegoneill National School and Belfast Technical College. He became a domestic engineer, and in 1948 was appointed as a Belfast Water Commissioner, serving as chairman of the Commissioners in 1954–55. In 1951, he became a justice of the peace. Fitzsimmons was also an active member of the Ulster Unionist Party and was the President of Duncairn Unionist Association. He was elected to the Parliament of Northern Ireland at a by-election in 1956, representing Belfast Duncairn. In 1961, he was made Assistant Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, an assistant whip position. He also became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce. He was then rotated through a series of Parliamentary Secretary positions, serving with the Ministry of Home Affairs from 1963 to 1964, the Ministry of Health and Local Governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William James Morgan
William James Morgan (PC(NI)) (17 July 1914 – 12 May 1999) was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Biography A businessman by profession, he owned James Morgan & Sons, a transport contractors' business. He was president of the Irish Temperance Alliance and chairman of Oldpark YMCA. He was elected to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland from the Belfast Oldpark seat in 1949, and represented the constituency until his defeat by Labour in 1958. He was then elected for Belfast Clifton in a 1959 by-election, and served that constituency until being defeated in 1969. He served as Assistant Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance and Assistant Whip from 1958 to 1961. This included five months while not holding a seat in Parliament, something which was permitted for a maximum of six months under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. He entered the Cabinet and Privy Council of Northern Ireland in 1961 as Minister of Health and Local Government and was appointe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Perceval-Maxwell
Major John Robert Perceval-Maxwell (1896–1963) was an Ulster Unionist Party politician from Northern Ireland. Perceval-Maxwell was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was called to the Bar but did not practice as a Barrister. From 1935 to 1941 he was a member of the Senate of Northern Ireland, and again from 1941 until his resignation in 1945. Between 1937 and 1937 he was Deputy Speaker of the Senate. He sat in the Northern Ireland House of Commons representing Ards from the general election of 1945 until the general election of 1949. when he retired after being deselected. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce from 21 September 1945 to 26 February 1949. He lived at Finnebrogue House, Downpatrick Downpatrick () is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the Lecale peninsula, about south of Belfast. In the Middle Ages, it was the capital of the Dál Fiatach, the main ruling dynasty of Ulaid. Its cath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilson Hungerford
Sir Alexander Wilson Hungerford (1884 – 19 January 1969), known as Wilson Hungerford, was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Born in Belfast, Hungerford was employed by the Irish Unionist Party from 1912. In 1921, he became Secretary of the Ulster Unionist Council, serving until 1941, and was also Secretary of the Ulster Unionist Labour Association. At the 1929 Northern Ireland general election, Hungerford was elected to represent Belfast Oldpark. He was also knighted in 1929. Hungerford was appointed as an Assistant Whip in 1933, and given the title "Assistant Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance". In 1941, he moved to become Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce. In 1943 he moved to the same post in the Ministry of Home Affairs, and in 1944 to Health and Local Government, before becoming Chief Whip in November, serving until the 1945 general election, when he lost his seat. In 1948, Hungerford was elected to the Senate of Northern I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McKeown
Robert John McKeown (12 May 1869 – 9 April 1925) was a Northern Irish businessman and Ulster Unionist Party politician. Born in Coagh, County Tyrone, he was educated privately and was a director of a linen manufacturing company. From 1914 - 1920 he was chairman of the Irish Power Loom Manufacturers' Association and a member of the Flax Control Board during the First World War. In 1920 he was president of the Ulster Reform Club The Ulster Reform Club is a business, social and dining club in Northern Ireland. The club's clubhouse, which opened on New Year's Day 1885, occupies a conspicuous position on Royal Avenue, Belfast, Royal Avenue in the centre of Belfast. In its ..., and chairman of the Ulster Liberal Unionist Association in 1921. He was a Stormont MP for North Belfast from 1921 until his death in 1925, and served as Parliamentary Secretary to both the Ministry for Education and Ministry for Commerce during that time. References External links * Mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Bailie
The Rt Hon. Robin John Bailie, PC (NI) (born 6 March 1937), is a Northern Irish solicitor and former politician. Biography Bailie was born in Toomebridge, County Antrim. He studied at the Rainey Endowed School and Queen's University, Belfast. He was a member of the Belfast Junior Chamber of Commerce, and an officer of the Ulster Young Unionist Council.David Gordon, ''The O'Neill Years'' He was associated with the Clifton branch of the Ulster Unionist Party, and from about 1960, collaborated with other young branch members, including Bob Cooper in an association which has been compared to the Conservative Party's Bow Group. They represented the more liberal wing of the party, and in 1962 they launched a journal, ''Review'', although they were only able to publish a single issue. Career Bailie qualified as a solicitor and was also active in business, becoming a council member of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In 1962, he claimed that a majority of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Chichester-Clark
James Dawson Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola, PC, DL (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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Bradford
Roy Hamilton Bradford (7 July 1921 – 2 September 1998) was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland and a government minister in both the Parliament of Northern Ireland and the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly. Born in Ligoniel in Belfast, Bradford studied at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar. He then worked in British Army intelligence before moving to London, where he worked for the BBC and ITV. In 1960 he published a novel, ''Excelsior''."Bradford, Roy", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' At the 1965 Northern Ireland general election, Bradford was elected for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in Belfast Victoria, defeating David Bleakley MP of the Northern Ireland Labour Party. In 1966 he was appointed as an Assistant Whip, then in 1968 as Chief Whip. From 1969 to 1971 he was the Minister of Commerce, becoming Minister of Development from 1971 to 1972. At the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
