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Jeremy Burchill

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Jeremy Burchill
Member of
Belfast City Council
In office
20 May 1981 – 15 May 1985
Preceded byDenis Loretto
Succeeded byDistrict abolished
ConstituencyBelfast Area A
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for East Belfast
In office
20 October 1982 – 1986
Member of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
for South Belfast
In office
1975–1976
Personal details
Born1952 (age 71–72)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Political partyUlster Unionist

Jeremy Burchill (born 1952) is a former Northern Irish unionist politician and barrister.

Background

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Burchill studied at Campbell College and Queen's University, Belfast, then became chair of the Ulster Young Unionist Council.[1] He contested the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention election in Belfast South in 1975, and was elected for the Ulster Unionist Party,[2] becoming the youngest member of the convention.[3] At the 1979 UK general election, he stood in North Antrim, taking second place, with 23.4% of the vote.[4]

Burchill was elected to Belfast City Council, representing Area A, in 1981.[5] He was also elected in the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly election, taking a seat in Belfast East.[6] He stood in the equivalent seat at the 1983 UK general election, taking 24.8% of the vote.[7]

Outside politics, Burchill was a member of both the Northern Ireland and English Bar, but had more recently worked as a consultant to financial service companies.[8]

References

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  1. ^ The Times Guide to the House of Commons, May 1979, p.35
  2. ^ South Belfast, 1973-1984 Archived 22 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections
  3. ^ Richard Rose, Northern Ireland: time of choice, p.112
  4. ^ North Antrim 1973-82 Archived 20 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections
  5. ^ The Local Government Elections 1973-1981: Belfast Archived 1 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections
  6. ^ East Belfast 1973-82, Northern Ireland Elections
  7. ^ East Belfast, 1983-1992, Northern Ireland Elections
  8. ^ Jeremey Birchill Archived 20 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, FMConsult
Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
New convention Member for South Belfast
1975–1976
Convention dissolved
Northern Ireland Assembly (1982)
New assembly MPA for East Belfast
1982–1986
Assembly abolished