John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney

John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney

John David Taylor, Baron Kilclooney PC ( NI ) (born December 24, 1937 in Armagh ) is a British politician of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), who was both a member of the House of Commons and a member of the European Parliament and since 2001 as Life Is a peer member of the House of Lords . In addition, he was for several years a member of the parliaments of Northern Ireland, most recently the Northern Ireland Assembly, and at times Interior Minister of Northern Ireland.

Life

Member of Parliament and Home Secretary of Northern Ireland

Taylor, an engineer by profession who became director of West Ulster Estates Ltd in 1968, began his political career in Northern Ireland and served as Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Association at Queen's University Belfast from 1959 to 1960 . He was then from 1961 to 1962 Chairman of the Council of Young Unionists in the Ulster Province .

He first became a member of Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1965 as a candidate for the Ulster Unionist Party at Stormont Castle, where he represented the constituency of South Tyrone until the parliament was dissolved in March 1972 . Most recently, from 1970 to 1972, he was Northern Ireland's Interior Minister in the cabinets of Prime Ministers James Chichester-Clark and Brian Faulkner . In 1970 he was also appointed a member of the Northern Irish Privy Council .

In the short-lived Northern Irish Assembly from 1973 to 1974 was also a member and represented in this the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone . Between 1975 and 1976 Taylor, who also became director of Bramley Apple Restaurant Ltd in 1974 and director of Gosford Housing Association Ltd in Armagh in 1978 , was a member of the Constituent Assembly as representative of the constituency of North Down .

Member of the European Parliament and Member of the House of Commons

In the 1979 European elections , Taylor was elected to Northern Ireland as a member of the 1st European Parliament and, after being re-elected in the 1984 European elections, was also a member of the second electoral period from 1984 to 1989 . At the end of 1986 he left the Group of European Democrats in protest against the Anglo-Irish Agreement and shortly afterwards joined the far-right Group of the European Right .

He became a member of the newly created Northern Irish Assembly in 1983 and represented the constituency of North Down until it was dissolved again in 1986 .

In Taylor, also was the since 1983 director of appearing in Armagh newspaper Ulster Gazette and since 1992 the Carrickfergus Advertiser Ltd, in the general election of 9 June 1983 for the first time chosen for the UUP deputy to the House of Commons and represented there until the general election on June 7, 2001 the constituency of Strangford . During his membership in the House of Commons, he was first spokesman for the UUP parliamentary group on trade and industry from 1992 to 1997 and then from 1997 to 2001 for foreign affairs and affairs of the Commonwealth of Nations .

Between 1989 and 1997 he was also involved in local politics as a member of the City Council of Castlereagh , in which he was also chairman of the UUP parliamentary group from 1989 to 1994.

After serving as Honorary Secretary of the Ulster Unionist Party between 1994 and 1996, he served as the UUP's deputy leader from 1995 to 2001. In addition, he from 1997 to 2011 Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) and 1997-2005 member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . In the elections of June 25, 1998 Taylor was also elected as a member of the new Northern Ireland Assembly and belonged to this for the UUP after his re-election on November 26, 2003 until the elections of March 7, 2007. He was also a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board from 2001 to 2006.

Member of the House of Lords and functions in the private sector

After retiring from the House of Commons, Taylor, who was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Hon. Ph.D. ) by the Eastern Mediterranean University in 1998 , became a life peer with the title Baron Kilclooney, of Armagh through a Letters patent dated July 17, 2001 in the County of Armagh raised to the nobility . Shortly thereafter took place on 17 October 2001 its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house he belongs to the group of so-called crossbenchers .

In the following years , Lord Kilclooney continued to take on numerous functions in the private sector , including being a board member of Cerdac Print Belfast Ltd, Tyrone Printing Ltd, Tyrone Courier Ltd, Tyrone Constitutions Ltd, Sovereign Properties Northern Ireland Ltd, Tontine Rooms Holding Co Ltd, Ulsternet Northern Ireland Ltd, Outlook Press Ltd, Coleraine Chronicle Ltd, Northern Constitution Ltd, Northern Newspapers Ltd, Midland Tribune Ltd, Alpha Publications Ltd, Northern Media Gp Ltd and East Antrim Newspapers Ltd.

He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Charles Sheils Houses, the Gosford Voluntary Housing Assoc, the Royal School of Armagh and a member of the Royal Historical Society, the Institute of Civil Engineers of Ireland and the Institute of Highway Engineers.

Publications

• Ulster: The Economic Facts (1971)

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 15, 2012)
• Entry for John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney in the database of Members of the European Parliament
• John Taylor at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 15, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 15, 2012)