Norman Agnew (April 1905 – ?) was a
unionist politician in
Northern Ireland
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Born in
Belfast
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, Agnew studied at Belfast Municipal College of Technology,
Queen's University Belfast
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and
Trinity College Dublin
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. He began working as a
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aged 15, but soon moved into management, then, in 1933, to the Ministry of Finance, and in 1946 to the
Belfast Corporation
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. At the Corporation, he initially worked in estates, but then for the city's Water Commissioners, of whom he was Secretary from 1952 to 1973.
[Ted Nealon, ''Ireland: a parliamentary directory, 1973–1974'', p.189] He was also a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Health
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On retirement, Agnew stood for the
Ulster Unionist Party
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in the
Northern Ireland Assembly election in 1973, and was elected in
Belfast East.
In 1975, he stood for the
Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
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, on this occasion for the
Unionist Party of Northern Ireland
The Unionist Party of Northern Ireland was a political party founded by Brian Faulkner in September 1974.
Formation
The party emerged following splits in the Ulster Unionist Party in 1973 and 1974 over the British government's white paper ''Nor ...
, but was not successful. He also stood in the
Westminster seat of Belfast East at the
1979 UK general election
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, but took fourth place, with only 4% of the votes cast.
East Belfast 1973–82
Northern Ireland Elections
References
1905 births
Year of death missing
Politicians from Belfast
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1973–1974
Ulster Unionist Party politicians
Unionist Party of Northern Ireland politicians
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