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Professor John Dunn Laird, Baron Laird FRSA of Artigarvan (born 23 April 1944) is a life peer and former chairman of the cross-border Ulster-Scots Agency. In 2013 Laird allegedly offered to lobby for a firm against parliamentary rules. Consequently, he resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party. ==Career== Whilst Chairman of the Ulster Young Unionist Council in 1970, Laird became the youngest member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, after winning the seat of Belfast Saint Anne's in a by-election caused by the death of his father, Dr Norman Laird OBE. He was expelled from the Ulster Unionist Parliamentary Party in January 1972 when he voted for a Democratic Unionist Party censure motion opposing a ban on certain processions planned for The Twelfth.〔(Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results: Boroughs: Belfast ) Election Demon〕 He topped the poll in Belfast West in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973 opposed to the proposals of the former Prime Minister Brian Faulkner. He repeated this feat as an Ulster Unionist candidate in the 1975 Constitutional Convention election. He established John Laird Public Relations in 1976, which, now called JPR,〔(JPR NI ).〕 is Northern Ireland's longest established PR company still in existence. He was created a life peer on 16 July 1999 as Baron Laird, of Artigarvan in the County of Tyrone. Laird studied at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and is an energetic supporter of all things Instonian. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Laird, Baron Laird」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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