Members of the Parliament of Northern Ireland 1958-1962 - Norman Stronge, James Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola, Brian Faulkner (Paperback)

Chapters: Norman Stronge, James Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola, Brian Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick, Terence O'neill, Baron O'neill of the Maine, Harry West, William Craig, Brian Maginess, Ivan Neill, William Fitzsimmons, Jack Andrews, William James Morgan, Brian Mcconnell, Baron Mcconnell, Daniel Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran, Edmond Warnock, Robert Simpson, Edward Warburton Jones, Isaac George Hawthorne, Herbert Kirk, Dinah Mcnabb, Walter Topping, Joseph Burns, John Edgar Bailey, Henry Holmes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Captain Sir Charles Norman Lockhart Stronge, 8th Baronet, MC, PC (NI), JP (23 July 1894 21 January 1981) was a senior Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Prior to his involvement in politics he was a British Army officer, decorated with the Military Cross in World War I and having fought at the Battle of the Somme. His positions after the war included Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons, for twenty-three years, and member of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland, to which he was appointed in 1946. He was shot and killed, aged 86, along with his son, James, by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1981 at Tynan Abbey, their home, which was burnt to the ground during the attack. His loyal and distinguished service was commended by Queen Elizabeth II at his funeral. Sir Norman was born in Bryansford, County Down, the son of Sir Charles Stronge, 7th Baronet. He was educated at Eton. In the First World War he served in France and Flanders with the 10th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, as lieutenant and later as captain. He was decorated with the Military Cross and the Belgian Croix de Guerre. He survived the first day of the Battle of the Somme and was the first soldier after the start of th...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=521199