William Sharpe Hinds (born 1906, date of death unknown) was a unionist

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. Hinds grew up in

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, becoming the owner of an engineering business. He was also elected as an

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Member of

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. At the

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, he was elected in Belfast Willowfield, and he served until his defeat in

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by unofficial Unionist

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who supported O'Neill's reform proposals. While he had the support at that election of the Ormeau Unionist Association and the Willowfield Women's Unionist Association, the Willowfield Unionist Club, another local affiliate of the

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, backed Caldwell, and this split became a long-term dispute among party activists in the area.John F. Harbinson, ''The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973'', p.71

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