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David Trimble
William David Trimble, Baron Trimble was a Northern Irish statesman and politician who was the inaugural First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002 and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 1995 to 2005. He was also Member of Parliament (MP) for Upper Bann from 1990 to 2005 and Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann from 1998 to 2007.
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politics · Northern Irish statesman (1944–2022) · politician · university teacher · barrister · also David Trimble, William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, Lord Trimble, Trimble
Born 15 October 1944 · Died 25 July 2022 · Q192556
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 4,400 Wikipedia readers in one day, 32.1× the usual 137, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM
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2022· 3 entries
Chicago Tribune: David Trimble, architect of Northern Ireland peace deal and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 77
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Yahoo: David Trimble, architect of N Ireland peace deal, dies at 77
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Died 2022-07-25.
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2021· 2 entries
Trimble was diagnosed with mixed dementia, a combination of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, and in early 2022 with lung cancer
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In 2021 Trimble was diagnosed with mixed dementia, a combination of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, and in early 2022 with lung cancer.
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2016· 2 entries
Trimble supported the Leave side in the UK referendum on EU membership
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To replace Alexander Redpath as a Councillor representing Downshire West on Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council
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2010· 1 entry
The Saville Inquiry confirmed that all of the 13 killings and 13 woundings were unjustified
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2007· 1 entry
Instead leaving the UUP to join the Conservative Party
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2006· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the House of Lords (2006–2022).
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2003· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the 2nd Northern Ireland Assembly (2003–2007).
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2002· 1 entry
Trimble was awarded the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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2001· 3 entries
Trimble questioned the impartiality of judge Sir Brian Kerr, later chief justice of Northern Ireland and a Law Lord appointed to the Supreme Court
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Career landmark: First Minister of Northern Ireland (2001–2002).
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Career landmark: member of the 53rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (2001–2005).
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1998· 6 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1998).
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Career landmark: First Minister of Northern Ireland (1998–2001).
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Career landmark: Member of the 1st Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–2003).
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And (along with John Hume) won the Nobel Peace Prize that year for his efforts
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Tony Blair announced a new judicial inquiry, the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, into the killing of 13 unarmed civil rights marchers in Derry in 1972
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1997· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the 52nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1997–2001).
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Became the first unionist leader since the partition of Ireland in 1921 to agree to negotiate with Sinn Féin
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Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (1997).
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1995· 2 entries
Was unexpectedly elected as the leader of the UUP
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Career landmark: Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (1995–2005).
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1994· 1 entry
Was told by the Royal Ulster Constabulary that he had been targeted for assassination
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1992· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1992–1997).
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1990· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 50th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1990–1992).
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1983· 1 entry
As he sat in his office at the university, he heard gunshots which turned out to be those of the IRA killers of Edgar Graham, a friend and fellow law lecturer
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1978· 1 entry
After Vanguard disbanded and was elected one of the four party secretaries
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1977· 1 entry
And head of Commercial and Property Law from 1981 to 1989
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1975· 2 entries
And joined the UUP in 1978 after the VPUP disbanded
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As a Vanguard member for Belfast South and, for a time, served as the party's joint deputy leader, along with the Ulster Defence Association's Glenn Barr
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1974· 1 entry
Was a legal adviser to the Ulster Workers' Council during the successful UWC strike against the Sunningdale Agreement
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-10-15.
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