John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney
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The Right Honourable The Lord Kilclooney PC (NI) |
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Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Strangford |
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In office 25 June 1998 – 7 March 2007 |
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Preceded by | Assembly Established |
Succeeded by | Michelle McIlveen |
Member of the UK Parliament for Strangford |
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In office 9 June 1983 – 7 June 2001 |
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Preceded by | Constituency Established |
Succeeded by | Iris Robinson |
Member of the European Parliament for Northern Ireland |
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In office 10 June 1979 – 15 June 1989 |
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Preceded by | Parliament Established |
Succeeded by | Jim Nicholson |
Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament for South Tyrone |
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In office 25 November 1965 – 30 March 1972 |
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Preceded by | William Frederick McCoy |
Succeeded by | Parliament Abolished |
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Born | 24 December 1937 |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Crossbench (formerly) Ulster Unionist Party |
Spouse(s) | Mary Todd |
Children | 6 |
Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
Religion | Presbyterian |
John David Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, PC (NI) (born 24 December 1937), is a former Ulster Unionist Party MP and a life peer. He was deputy leader of the UUP from 1995 to 2001, and a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Career and family
Taylor was educated at The Royal School, Armagh, and The Queen's University of Belfast (BSc). He married Mary Todd in 1970 and has six children. Lord Kilclooney owns Alpha Newspapers which operates local newspaper titles in Northern Ireland and the Republic. He is a member of the Farmers Club in London, and the County Club in Armagh City.
Lord Kilclooney's political career began as MP for South Tyrone in the Northern Ireland House of Commons between 1965 and 1972 and served in the government of Northern Ireland as Minister of State at the Ministry of Home Affairs.[citation needed]
In February 1972, he survived an assassination attempt by the Official Irish Republican Army. Two men, including Joe McCann (who was himself shot dead some months afterwards whilst evading arrest) raked his car with bullets, hitting Taylor five times in the head. Taylor survived, but needed extensive reconstructive surgery on his jaw. Despite this, Taylor soon re-entered politics. He represented Fermanagh & South Tyrone in the short-lived Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 1973 and dissolved in 1974, following the collapse of the power-sharing Executive.[1]
He became a Member of the European Parliament for Northern Ireland in 1979, remaining an MEP until 1989. On 20 January 1987,[2] Taylor left the European Democrats, with whom the Conservatives sat, to join the controversial European Right group.[3]
He was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1982 for North Down. He then became MP for Strangford in 1983, until 2001. He was a member of Castlereagh Borough Council from 1993–1997. In February 1989 he joined the "hard right" Conservative Monday Club and appears on the list of their speakers at the Annual Conference of its Young Members' Group at the United Oxford & Cambridge Club in Pall Mall, on 18 November 1989, when he spoke on 'The Union and Northern Ireland'.[citation needed]
Following the 2001 general election, on 17 July he was created a life peer as Baron Kilclooney, of Armagh in the County of Armagh.[4] He sat on the Northern Ireland Policing Board between 1998 and 2006. He continued to sit as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly until his retirement prior to the elections in March 2007. He remains the only active politician to have participated in all levels of government in Northern Ireland, from local council, the Parliament of Northern Ireland, Westminster, Europe, all previous failed Assemblies and Conventions and the current incarnation of the Assembly.[citation needed]
In January 2012, Taylor wrote to The Scotsman newspaper asserting that Scotland should be subject to partition, depending on the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum.[5]
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See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Details of assassination attempt, cain.ulst.ac.uk; accessed 24 October 2015.
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External links
- Stormont Biography
- BBC Profile
- Cain Biography
- Northern Ireland Policing Board
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Taylor
Parliament of Northern Ireland | ||
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for South Tyrone 1965–1973 |
Parliament prorogued 1972 abolished 1973 |
Political offices | ||
Preceded by | Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs 1970 |
Succeeded by Office abolished |
New office | Minister of State, Ministry of Home Affairs 1970–1972 |
Office abolished |
European Parliament | ||
New creation | MEP for Northern Ireland 1979–1989 |
Succeeded by Jim Nicholson |
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
New constituency | Member of Parliament for Strangford 1983–2001 |
Succeeded by Iris Robinson |
Northern Ireland Assembly | ||
New creation | MLA for Strangford 1998–2007 |
Succeeded by Michelle McIlveen |
Party political offices | ||
Preceded by
Post recreated
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Deputy Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party 1995–2002 |
Succeeded by Sir Reg Empey |
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