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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Albert Anderson (politician), Algernon Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene, Anthony Babington (politician), Arthur Black (unionist politician), Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Basil Kelly, Brian Faulkner, Brian Maginess, Daniel McGladdery, Edmond Warnock, Edward Sullivan Murphy, Edward Warburton Jones, George Boyle Hanna, Harry West, Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, Isaac George Hawthorne, James Chichester-Clark, John Andrew Long, John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough, John Clarke Davison, John Edgar Bailey, John Fawcett Gordon, John MacDermott, Baron MacDermott, John William Kennedy, Joseph Burns (UK politician), Joseph Davison, Lancelot Curran, Maxwell Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor, Norman Stronge, Richard Best (judge), Robert Corkey, Robert Megaw, Robert Simpson (UK politician), Rowley Elliott, Roy Bradford, Samuel Magowan, Sir Henry Mulholland, 1st Baronet, Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Thomas Henry Burn, Walter Topping, William Fitzsimmons (politician), William Grant (Ulster Unionist politician), William James Morgan, William Lowry, William Moore Wallis Clark, Wilson Hungerford. Excerpt: Captain Sir Charles Norman Lockhart Stronge, 8th Baronet, MC, PC (NI), JP (23 July 1894 - 21 January 1981) was a senior Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Prior to his involvement in politics he was a British Army officer, decorated with the Military Cross in World War I and having fought at the Battle of the Somme. His positions after the war included Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons, for twenty-three years, and member of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland, to which he was appointed in 1946. He was shot and killed, aged 86, along with his son, James, by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1981 at Tynan Abbey, their home, which was burnt to the ground during the attack. Sir Norman was born in Bryansford, County Down, Ireland, the son of Sir Charles Stronge, 7th Baronet and Marian Bostock, whose family were from Epsom. He was educated at Eton. In the First World War he served in France and Flanders with the 10th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, as lieutenant and later as captain. He was decorated with the Military Cross and the Belgian Croix de Guerre. He survived the first day of the Battle of the Somme and was the first soldier after the start of the battle to be mentioned in despatches by Lord Haig. In April 1918, he was appointed adjutant of the 15th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. He was wounded, whilst near Kortrijk, on 20 October 1918. He relinquished his commission on 19 August 1919, and was permitted to retain the rank of captain. On the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again commissioned, this time into the North Irish Horse, Royal Armoured Corps, reverting to second lieutenant. He relinquished the commission on 20 April 1940 due to ill-health. In 1950 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of a Territorial Army unit of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. Sir Norman was appointed Sheriff of County Londonderry in January 1934. He was elected as an Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Mid Armagh in the
