serviceyears branch death_date children constituency_mp allegiance nationality birth_date term_end death_place battles term_start spouse rank image name caption predecessor parliament birth_place unit party office successor religion article_title
1942 -- 1960 united kingdom 17 may 2002 3 south londonderry united kingdom british 12 february 1923 23 march 1971 31 march 1971 30 march 1972 moyola park , northern ireland world war ii 1 may 1969 1 may 1969 9 july 1960 moyra haughton major james chichester-clark 1970.jpg the lord moyola james chichester-clark in 1970 terence o'neill terence o'neill dehra parker northern ireland moyola park , northern ireland irish guards ulster unionist party prime unionist party minister of northern ireland leader of the ulster brian faulkner brian faulkner constituency abolished anglican james chichester-clark

james chichester-clark

james dawson chichester-clark , baron moyola , pc , dl -lrb- 12 february 1923 -- 17 may 2002 -rrb- was the penultimate prime minister of northern ireland and eighth leader of the ulster unionist party between 1969 and march 1971 .
he was member of the northern ireland parliament for south londonderry for 12 years beginning at the by-election to replace his grandmother dehra parker in 1960 .
he stopped being an mp when the stormont parliament was suspended and subsequently abolished with the introduction of direct rule by the british government .
chichester-clark 's election as uup leader resulted from the sudden resignation of terence o'neill after the ambiguous result of the preceding general election .
his term in office was dominated by both internal unionist struggles , seeing the political emergence of ian paisley from the right and alliance party of northern ireland from the left , and an emergent nationalist resurgence .
in march 1971 , with his health suffering under the strain of the growing political strife , he resigned -- having failed to secure extra military resources from the british government .
