Sir Alfred Cecil Walker (17 December 1924 - 3 January 2007) was an Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast from 1983 to 2001. December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD (or CE) era. ... The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party ) is a moderate unionist political party in Northern Ireland, which formed its government between 1921 and 1972 and was supported by most unionists throughout the Troubles. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Belfast North is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ...

Walker was born in Belfast. His father was a police constable. He was educated at Everton elementary school, Model Boys' school and Belfast Methodist College. He worked for the Belfast timber trader James P. Corry after leaving school in 1941 until he was elected to Parliament in 1983. He married Ann Verrant in 1953. They had two sons together. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... For the painter see John Constable. ... Methodist College Belfast is a voluntary grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland, At present the Grammar School has 1850 pupils, aged 11 - 18, making it one of the largest schools in Belfast. ...

He became actively involved in Unionist politics in the 1970s, and was elected to Belfast City Council in 1977. He contested the Belfast North constituency in the 1979 general election, narrowly losing to John McQuade of the Democratic Unionist Party. He won the seat 4 years later, in the 1983 general election, after McQuade retired. In later years, he concentrated on constituency work, and was one of the MPs with the lowest attendance rate at Westminster. Belfast City Council is the largest local council serving the largest city in Northern Ireland which has a population of 277,391. ... The British general election of May 3, 1979 was a pivotal point in 20th century British politics. ... John McQuade (July 1912 - 19 November 1984), known as Johnny McQuade, was a Northern Ireland politician. ... For other political parties named Democratic Unionist Party, see Democratic Unionist Party (disambiguation). ... (Redirected from 1983 UK general election) The general election of June 9, 1983 gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the second most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945. ...

Along with all other Unionist MPs, he resigned his seat in December 1985 in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement. He was re-elected at a by-election in January 1986. In 1988, he advocated internment of IRA suspects to stem a series of murders, but also argued for the interment of suspects connected with the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force. In 1998, he was one of only two UUP MPs to support the Good Friday Agreement without reservation, and he backed UUP leader David Trimble until the end of Trimble's own political career in 2005. The Anglo-Irish Agreement was an agreement between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland which aimed to bring an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. ... A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. ... Internment camp for Japanese in Canada during World War II Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. ... A Republican mural in Belfast depicting the hunger strikes of 1981. ... The UDA flag in the town center of Ahoghill, County Antrim. ... The Ulster Volunteer Force (more commonly referred to as the UVF) are a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. ... The Belfast Agreement (also known as the Good Friday Agreement and, more rarely, as the Stormont Agreement) was signed in Belfast on April 10, 1998 by the British and Irish Governments and endorsed by most Northern Ireland political parties. ... The Lord Trimble William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, PC (born 15 October 1944), known as David Trimble, is a Northern Irish politician who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the first First Minister of Northern Ireland. ...

However, he lost his own seat to Nigel Dodds of the DUP in the 2001 general election, following a disastrous televised debate at Crumlin Road Courthouse in his constituency, in which he stumbled over some of the most rudimentary questions. His vote declined from 21,000 to 4,000, and he was beaten into fourth place behind Sinn Fein and the SDLP. He later claimed that his hearing aid had not been working properly. Nigel Alexander Dodds, OBE (born August 20, 1958) is a barrister and Northern Ireland unionist politician. ... The United Kingdom general election of 7 June 2001 was dubbed as the quiet landslide by the media. ... The Crumlin Road Courthouse was designed by the architect Charles Lanyon and completed in 1850. ... Sinn Féin (in the Irish language ourselves or we ourselves; not as sometimes incorrectly translated, ourselves alone) is an Irish political party. ... The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP — Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is the smaller of the two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland. ...

He was noted for the moderation of his Unionist views, which contrasted with the deep sectarian divisions in his constituency. He said he would have no objection to amending the Act of Settlement 1701 to allow the heir to the throne to marry a Roman Catholic, and caused controversy in 2001 by saying that a united Ireland in 30 years time, after he was dead, may not be a bad thing. He received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2002. The Electress Sophia The Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm 3 c. ... Topographical map of Ireland. ... A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ...

He lived in in Glengormley, in County Antrim, and died of a heart attack in Newtownabbey. He was survived by his wife and their two sons. Glengormley is a town located in the borough of Newtownabbey, bordering the north-western edge of Belfast in Northern Ireland. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Antrim Area: 2,844 km² Population (est. ... A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream. ... Newtownabbey Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. ...

References

• Former MP Cecil Walker dies at 81, BBC News, 3 January 2007
• Obituary, The Independent, 5 January 2007
• Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 5 January 2007
• Obituary, The Times, 9 January 2007
• Obituary, The Guardian, 15 January 2007
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

• Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1992 edition