Background
PAISLEY, Rev. Dr. Ian Richard Kyle was born on April 6, 1926 in Northern Ireland. Parents: the late Reverend J. Kyle Paisley and Isabella Turnbull.
leader Democratic Unionist Party
PAISLEY, Rev. Dr. Ian Richard Kyle was born on April 6, 1926 in Northern Ireland. Parents: the late Reverend J. Kyle Paisley and Isabella Turnbull.
Ballymena Model School. Ballymena Technical High School, Northern Ireland. South Wales Bible College.
Reformed Presbyterian Theological College, Belfast.
Member of the Northern Ireland (Stormont) Parliament (Protestant Unionist) for Bannside, County Antrim, 197072, Leader of the Opposition, 1972, Chairman, Public Accounts Committee, 1972. Member of Parliament for Antrim North, since 1970. Leader (cofounder), Democratic Unionist Party, 1971 -.
Member. Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973-1974. Member. Constitutional Convention, 1975-1976. Member of European Parliament for Northern Ireland, since 1979.
Member, Rex Committee and Political Committee. Member, Second Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982-1986. Chairman Agriculture and Privileges Otees., 198386.
Ordained as minister. Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian Church, 1946. Moderator, Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, since 1951.
Founded the Protestant Telegraph, 1966. Co-Chmn., World Congress of Fundamentalists, 1978. President, Whitfield College of the Bible, Laurencetown, 1980.
Protestant
Spouse Eileen Emily Cassells, 1956. Children: Sharon, Rhonda, Cherith, Kyle, Ian.