Ian Paisley Ian Paisley Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014), was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland. He became a Protestant evangelical minister in 1946 and remained one for the rest of his life. In 1951 he co-founded the fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and was its leader until 2008. Paisley became known for his fiery sermons and regularly preached and protested against Roman Catholicism, ecumenism and homosexuality. He gained a large group of followers who were referred to as Paisleyites. Paisley became involved in Ulster unionist/loyalist politics in the
Stanley Clinton-Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis Stanley Clinton-Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis Stanley Clinton Clinton-Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis, PC (born 6 December 1928), born Stanley Clinton Davis, is a British Labour politician, former European Commissioner, former minister and solicitor. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney Central (1970–1983), and was a minister in the Labour governments of Prime Ministers Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair. He was European Commissioner in the Delors Commission (1985–1989). In 1990, he became a Life Peer as Baron Clinton-Davis, of Hackney in the London Borough of Hackney, sitting on the Labour benches in the House of Lords until his retirement in