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Alfred Cecil Walker
Born 17 December 1924
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died 3 January 2007 (aged 82)
Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland

Sir Alfred Cecil Walker (17 December 1924 - 3 January 2007) was an Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast from 1983 to 2001. Events 546 - Gothic War (535–554: The Ostrogoths of King Totila Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 546 - Gothic War (535–554: The Ostrogoths of King Totila Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or in a historic sense simply the Unionist Party A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Belfast North is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.

Walker was born in Belfast. Belfast ( is the capital city of Northern Ireland and the seat of government in Northern Ireland. His father was a police constable. A constable is a person holding a particular office most commonly in law enforcement. He was educated at Everton elementary school, Model Boys' school and Belfast Methodist College. History The school was founded in 1865 by the Methodist Church in Ireland for the education of children of Methodist ministers and opened three years later 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.

He became actively involved in Unionist politics in the 1970s, and was elected to Belfast City Council in 1977. Belfast City Council is the City council for Belfast, Northern Ireland. He contested the Belfast North constituency in the 1979 general election, narrowly losing to John McQuade of the Democratic Unionist Party. Background Callaghan had succeeded Harold Wilson as Labour Prime Minister after the latter's surprise resignation in April 1976 John McQuade (July 1912 &ndash 19 November 1984) known as Johnny McQuade, was a Northern Ireland politician The Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP) is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. He won the seat 4 years later, in the 1983 general election, after McQuade retired. Results The Conservatives won with a majority of 144 seats|} Total votes cast 30661309 He was one of the MPs with the lowest attendance rate at Westminster.

Along with all other Unionist MPs, he resigned his seat in December 1985 in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement. The Anglo-Irish Agreement was an agreement between the United Kingdom and Ireland which aimed to bring an end to The Troubles in Northern Ireland He was re-elected at a by-election in January 1986. A by-election or bye-election (called special election in the United States) is an Election held to fill a political office that has become vacant In 1988, he advocated internment of Provisional Irish Republican Army (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. Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people commonly in large groups without trial The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Óglaigh na hÉireann ( IRA; also referred to as the PIRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the The Ulster Defence Association ( UDA) is a loyalist Paramilitary criminal organization in Northern Ireland, outlawed as a Terrorist The Ulster Volunteer Force (more commonly referred to as the UVF) is a Loyalist group in Northern Ireland. 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 Agreement, most often referred to as the Belfast Agreement (Comhaontú Bhéal Feirste Belfast Greeance or the Good Friday Agreement (Comhaontú Aoine an William David Trimble Baron Trimble (born 15 October 1944 is a Northern Irish Politician from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster

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. Nigel Alexander Dodds, OBE, MP, MLA, BL (born Derry, 20 August 1958) is a Barrister and Northern The Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP) is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Results |} Total votes cast 26368204 All parties with more than 500 votes shown The Crumlin Road Courthouse was designed by the architect Charles Lanyon and completed in 1850 His vote declined from 21,000 to 4,000, and he was beaten into fourth place behind Sinn Féin and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) - although this was also partly due to the fact that there had been no DUP candidate in the previous general election. Sinn Féin () is a political party in Ireland. The current party led by Gerry Adams was formed following a split in January 1970 The Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP; Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre is one 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. The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England, originally filed in 1700 and passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English throne A United Ireland is the term used to refer to a sovereign state encompassing the whole of the island of Ireland. He received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2002. Knight is the English term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages.

He lived in Glengormley, in County Antrim, and died of a heart attack in Newtownabbey. Glengormley ( is a village located in the borough of Newtownabbey, bordering the north-western edge of Belfast in Northern Ireland. County Antrim ( Contae Aontroma or simply Aontroim in Irish) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, and one of nine counties Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply See also Newtownabbey (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency. He was survived by his wife and their two sons.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John McQuade		 Member of Parliament for Belfast North
1983–2001		 Succeeded by
Nigel Dodds
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