Ian Paisley and had been an instrumental party in the Good Friday Agreement. In 2007, following the St Andrews Agreement, the DUP finally agreed to share power with republican party Sinn Féin and consent to all-Ireland governance in certain matters. Paisley and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness became First Minister and deputy First Minister respectively in May 2007. He stepped down as First Minister and DUP leader in mid-2008, and left politics in 2011. Paisley was made a life peer in 2010 as Baron Bannside. Ian Richard Kyle Paisley was born in Armagh, County Armagh, and brought up in the town of Ballymena,
Benjamin Bathurst (politician, born 1872) Bathurst. Benjamin Bathurst (politician, born 1872) Lieutenant-Colonel Allen Benjamin Bathurst (25 June 1872 – 8 October 1947) was a British Conservative Party politician. He usually went by his middle name and was known as "Benjamin Bathurst". Bathurst was the third son of Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst, and his first wife the Hon. Meriel "née" Warren (1839–1872), daughter of George Warren, 2nd Baron de Tabley. He commanded the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment and achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Territorial Force Reserve. At the 1895 general election he was elected to the House of Commons as Member