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,
Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton Alexander Francis St Vincent Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton (7 April 1898 – 12 June 1991) was a British businessman and politician. Baring was the son of German Baring family member Francis Baring, 5th Baron Ashburton, a descendant of American statesman William Bingham, and Claire Hortense, daughter of French statesman Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, seeing active service during the First World War in the Royal Scots Greys. In the Second World War, he served in the Auxiliary Air Force, before returning to his career