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Sir James Alexander Kilfedder (July 16, 1928March 20, 1995) was a Northern Ireland unionist politician. July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: [citation needed] (French for God and my right)2 Anthem: UK: God Save the Queen Regional: (de facto) Londonderry Air Capital Belfast Largest city Belfast Official language(s) English (de facto), Irish, Ulster Scots 3, NI Sign Language Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair... Unionism, in the context of Ireland, is a belief in the continuation of the Act of Union 1800 (as amended by the Government of Ireland Act 1920) so that Northern Ireland (created by the 1920 Act) remains part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. ...


Kilfedder was educated at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen and Dublin University. He became a barrister, called to the Irish Bar at King's Inns, Dublin, in 1952 and the English Bar at Gray's Inn in 1958. He practised in London. Portora Royal School is a boys school located in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. ... Coles Monument Enniskillen (Inis Ceithleann in Irish) is the county town (and largest town) of County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. ... The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin or more commonly Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin, Irelands oldest university. ... The Kings Inns or formally the Honorable Society of Kings Inns (HSKI) is the institution which controls the entry of barristers-at-law into the justice system of the Republic of Ireland. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... Entrance to Grays Inn Grays Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in around the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England to which barristers belong and where they are called to the bar. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...


At the 1964 general election, Kilfedder was elected as Member of Parliament for West Belfast, but lost his seat at the 1966 election to Gerry Fitt. He was elected again in the 1970 general election for North Down, and held the seat until his death in 1995. Initially a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, he left it in the late 1970s in opposition to the party's new policy of integration, preferring to advocate the restoration of the Stormont Administration. For a time he sat as an Independent Ulster Unionist, then in 1980 he formed the Ulster Popular Unionist Party. The party did not outlive him, and the by-election for his Commons seat won by Robert McCartney. The United Kingdom general election of 1964 result was a very slim majority for the Labour Party, of 4, and led to their first government since 1951. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Creation 1922 MP Gerry Adams Party Sinn Féin Type House of Commons Districts Belfast, Lisburn EP constituency Northern Ireland Belfast West is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... The UK general election in 1966 was called by Harold Wilson because his government, elected in the 1964 election, had an unworkably small majority. ... Gerrard Gerry Fitt, Baron Fitt (9 April 1926 – 26 August 2005) was a Northern Irish politician. ... The United Kingdom general election of 1970 was held on June 18, 1970, and resulted in a surprise loss of power for Labour under Harold Wilson, who was replaced as Prime Minister by the Conservative leader, Edward Heath. ... North Down is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the home rule legislature created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which existed from June 7, 1921 to March 30, 1972, when it was suspended. ... Statistics Area: 24,481 km² Population (2006 estimate) 1,993,918 Ulster (Irish: Cúige Uladh, IPA: ) forms one of the four traditional provinces of Ireland. ... The Ulster Popular Unionist Party was a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. ... The North Down by-election, in the North Down constituency, was held on 15 June 1995, following the death of James Kilfedder, who had represented the constituency since the 1970 UK general election. ... Robert McCartney QC MLA (born 1936) often known as Bob, is a Northern Ireland Barrister, unionist politician, and leader of the UK Unionist Party, and the only UKUP member of the currently-suspended Northern Ireland Assembly. ...


Sir James died in 1995. The same day the lead story in the Belfast Telegraph reported that an unnamed MP from Northern Ireland had received a letter from the gay rights campaign group Outrage! threatening to expose their sexuality if they did not support gay liberation issues in Parliament. [[1]] He had a heart attack on a train. He died unmarried, survived by two sisters. Any accusations regarding his sexuality remain unproved. 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. ...

Political offices
Preceded by:
Patricia McLaughlin
Member of Parliament for Belfast West
19641966
Succeeded by:
Gerry Fitt
Preceded by:
George Currie
Member of Parliament for North Down
19701995
Succeeded by:
Robert McCartney

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North Down 1973-1982 (703 words)
Kilfedder received a massive personal endorsement, having split with the UUP due to dislike of their increasing support for integration with the rest of the UK rather than devolution.
Kilfedder's massive personal vote gave the five UUUC candidates more than five quotas on the first count, but enough of his first preferences went outside the Loyalist coalition to allow Lord Brookebrough to squeak through against the UUP's Neil Oliver, by 6536 votes to 6516, the closest result of the entire election.
Kilfedder is listed by both Walker and Knight as anti-White Paper; he had however signed Faulkner's pledge and so is listed by Flackes and Elliott as pro, with a mention by Bew and Gillespie that he changed sides after the election from pro to anti.
The 1995 North Down by-election (4405 words)
Kilfedder was the longest serving of the 17 Northern Ireland Westminster MP's.
Kilfedder was more than a little annoyed about this since he took the Conservative whip at Westminster and in fact had been more loyal to the Thatcher/Major government than many of its own backbenchers.
Likewise, Kilfedder had been the leader of a telephone-booth party - three local councillors had been elected on his ticket in 1993, two in the Abbey electoral district of North Down and one in Castlereagh East, but none of the three was obvious parliamentary material.
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