Moyola of Castledawson, Baron
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Major James Dawson Chichester-Clark
Northern Irish politician (b. Feb. 12, 1923, Moyola Park, Castledawson, County Londonderry, N.Ire.—d. May 17, 2002, London, Eng.), was the moderate Unionist prime minister of Northern Ireland who, in
August 1969, reluctantly called in the first British troops in an attempt to stem rising sectarian violence. He was a member of the Protestant landed gentry and was elected to the Northern Ireland Parliament in 1960. He was serving as minister of agriculture (1967–69) when in May 1969 he was unexpectedly chosen to succeed reformist Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, who had been forced out in a crisis of confidence. As prime minister, Chichester-Clark released all political prisoners and ordered an amnesty for those charged with political offenses. He was unable to broker peace between the Protestants and Roman Catholics, however, and when the sectarian rioting escalated, he turned to the British military for help. He was made a life peer shortly after his resignation on March 20, 1971, and thereafter he spoke often on Northern Irish affairs in the British House of Lords.
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