John Laird, Baron Laird

Professor John Dunn Laird, Baron Laird  of Artigarvan (23 April 1944 – 10 July 2018) was a Northern Ireland 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. As a result, he resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party. He was created a life peer on 16 July 1999 as Baron Laird, of Artigarvan in the County of Tyrone.

Laird died on 10 July 2018 in Belfast at the age of 74.Lord Laird Passes Away

References

Other websites
 Lord Laird website 
 John Laird, Crossbencher Stratagem 
 Ulster's 'Braveheart' on rebel hunt , Interview with the Sunday Tribune, 22 January 2006 (Newshound)
 Debrett's Limited
  Parliamentary answers 2010/11.

Category:1944 births
Category:2018 deaths
Category:Ulster Unionist Party politicians
Category:United Kingdom Life Peers
Category:Members of the Parliament of Northern Ireland