Norman Laird
Norman Laird (1906 – 28 April 1970) was a medical doctor and unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
Laird studied at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the Queen's University of Belfast. He became a doctor and joined the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), and chaired its St Anne's branch from 1948 until 1969. He was awarded an OBE in 1961.[1]
Laird was elected for the UUP in Belfast St Anne's at the 1969 Northern Ireland general election.[1] In March 1970, he was one of five UUP MPs expelled from the Ulster Unionist parliamentary party for refusing to support the government in a vote of no confidence.[2] He died the following month. In the ensuing by-election, his seat was won by his son, John Laird.[1]
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- 1906 births
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- Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
- Medical doctors from Northern Ireland
- Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1969–1973
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- People educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution
- Ulster Unionist Party members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland
- Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for Belfast constituencies
- 20th-century medical doctors from Northern Ireland