Background
Born at Ballynahatty, Shaw"s Bridge, Belfast, the son of Cuthbert C. Pounder, Rafton Pounder was educated at Rockport School, Charterhouse and at Christ"s College, Cambridge, where he was Chairman of the Conservative Association (CUCA).
Born at Ballynahatty, Shaw"s Bridge, Belfast, the son of Cuthbert C. Pounder, Rafton Pounder was educated at Rockport School, Charterhouse and at Christ"s College, Cambridge, where he was Chairman of the Conservative Association (CUCA).
From 1964 to 1967, he served as Secretary of the Ulster Unionist Parliamentary Party.
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He was elected Member of Parliament for Belfast South in a 1963 by-election, and served until February 1974 when he lost as a Pro-Assembly Unionist to the Reverend Robert Bradford of the United Ulster Unionist Coalition.
Pounder was also a Member of the European Parliament from 1973 to 1974.