Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's

The Baroness Paisley of St George's
Paisley in 2011
Member of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
for Belfast East
In office
1 May 1975 – 1976
Member of the Legislative Assembly
for Belfast East
In office
28 June 1973 – 1974
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
14 June 2006 – 30 October 2017
Life peerage
Member of
Belfast Corporation
In office
1967–1973
Personal details
Born
Eileen Emily Cassells

(1931-11-02) 2 November 1931 (age 92)
Political partyDemocratic Unionist Party (from 1971)
Other political
affiliations
Protestant Unionist Party (1966-1971)
Spouse
(m. 1956; died 2014)
Children5, including Rhonda and Ian Jr

Eileen Emily Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's, Baroness Bannside (née Cassells; born 2 November 1931),[1] is a Northern Irish Unionist politician, a vice-president of the Democratic Unionist Party, and the widow of Ian Paisley,[2] Lord Bannside, former leader of the DUP. She became a life peer in 2006. She retired from the House of Lords on 30 October 2017.[3]

  1. ^ "Eileen Paisley profile". Bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  2. ^ "Former First Minister and DUP leader Ian Paisley has died". BBC News. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Baroness Paisley of St George's". UK Parliament. Retrieved 18 December 2017.