John Gorman (politician)
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Sir John Reginald Gorman, CVO, CBE, MC, DL, (b. February 1, 1923, Omagh, Northern Ireland) was between 1998 and 2003 an Ulster Unionist Party MLA for North Down, and one of the few Roman Catholics to be elected as a Unionist representative in Northern Ireland.
Born in Omagh, County Tyrone in 1923, Gorman joined the Irish Guards in 1944, rising to the rank of Captain. After winning the Military Cross in the Second World War he left the army and served as a District Inspector of the RUC from 1946 to 1963.
After an assorted career, during which he was for a time Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, he was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue in 1996 as a top-up candidate from the party list. He served as Chairman of the Forum from 1996 to 1998.
In 1998 he was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Down and served as a Deputy Speaker of the Assembly. He resigned as Deputy Speaker in February 2002[1].
He was knighted in the Birthday Honours of 1998 and is a Deputy Lord Lieutenant (DL) of County Down.
[edit] External links
- Northern Ireland Assembly biography
- Extract from autobiography
- BBC News - Gorman set to retire from Assembly 17 September 2002
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Deputy Lord Lieutenant of County Down - |
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Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1998–2002 |
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Categories: 1923 births | Living people | People from County Tyrone | British Army officers | Northern Irish Roman Catholics | British military personnel of World War II | Ulster Unionist Party politicians | Northern Irish police officers | Catholic Unionists | Members of the Northern Ireland Forum | Northern Ireland MLAs 1998-2003 | Knights Bachelor
