Ronald Bunting
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{{Short description|Northern Irish politician and British Army officer}} |
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[[File:Ronald Bunting.jpg|thumb|right|Ronald Bunting circa 1960s]] |
[[File:Ronald Bunting.jpg|thumb|right|Ronald Bunting circa 1960s]] |
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Major '''Ronald Terence Bunting''' (1 January 1924 – 28 June 1984)W.D. Flackes & S. Elliott, ''Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-1993'', Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1994, p. 108 was a [[British Army]] officer and [[Unionism in Ireland|unionist]] political figure in [[Northern Ireland]]. |
Major '''Ronald Terence Bunting''' (1 January 1924 – 28 June 1984)W.D. Flackes & S. Elliott, ''Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-1993'', Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1994, p. 108 was a [[British Army]] officer and [[Unionism in Ireland|unionist]] political figure in [[Northern Ireland]]. |
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Bunting was commissioned into the [[County Armagh|Armagh]] and [[County Down|Down]] [[Army Cadet Force]] in May 1946 and resigned in March 1950 when he transferred to the [[Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers]] as a [[lieutenant]]. He was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in 1952 and retired with the honorary rank of [[Major (rank)|major]] in 1960. After leaving the army |
Bunting was commissioned into the [[County Armagh|Armagh]] and [[County Down|Down]] [[Army Cadet Force]] in May 1946 and resigned in March 1950 when he transferred to the [[Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers]] as a [[lieutenant]]. He was promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in 1952 and retired with the honorary rank of [[Major (rank)|major]] in 1960. After leaving the army he worked as a mathematics lecturer in the [[Belfast College of Technology]]. |
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Bunting's first involvement with politics was as election agent to [[Republican Labour Party]] MP [[Gerry Fitt]],David Boulton, ''The UVF, 1966-73: An Anatomy of Loyalist Rebellion'', Gill and Macillan, 1973, p. 71Ciaran McKeown, ''The Passion of Peace'', Blackstaff Press, 1984, p. 54 although he broke from Fitt and became a close associate of [[Ian Paisley]], playing a leading role in Paisley's campaigns against the [[Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association]], as well as running unsuccessfully for the [[Protestant Unionist Party]] in the [[1969 Northern Ireland general election|Northern Ireland general election of 1969]] in [[Belfast Victoria (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)|Belfast Victoria]].{{Cite web |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/belfast.html |title=Northern Ireland Parliamentary Elections Results: Boroughs: Belfast |access-date=27 May 2014 |archive-date=22 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722074311/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/belfast.html |url-status=dead }} |
Bunting's first involvement with politics was as election agent to [[Republican Labour Party]] MP [[Gerry Fitt]],David Boulton, ''The UVF, 1966-73: An Anatomy of Loyalist Rebellion'', Gill and Macillan, 1973, p. 71Ciaran McKeown, ''The Passion of Peace'', Blackstaff Press, 1984, p. 54 although he broke from Fitt and became a close associate of [[Ian Paisley]], playing a leading role in Paisley's campaigns against the [[Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association]], as well as running unsuccessfully for the [[Protestant Unionist Party]] in the [[1969 Northern Ireland general election|Northern Ireland general election of 1969]] in [[Belfast Victoria (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)|Belfast Victoria]].{{Cite web |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/belfast.html |title=Northern Ireland Parliamentary Elections Results: Boroughs: Belfast |access-date=27 May 2014 |archive-date=22 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722074311/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/belfast.html |url-status=dead }} |
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