Wilson Clyde

Wilson Clyde
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Antrim South
In office
25 June 1998 – 7 March 2007
Preceded byNew Creation
Succeeded byWilliam McCrea
Personal details
Born(1934-04-08)8 April 1934
Kilbegs, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Died19 April 2019(2019-04-19) (aged 85)
NationalityBritish
Political partyDemocratic Unionist Party
SpouseEvelyn
OccupationFarmer

Samuel Wilson Clyde (8 April 1934 – 19 April 2019) was a Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly for South Antrim from 1998 to 2007.

Life and career

Born in Kilbegs, County Antrim, Clyde worked as a farmer before being elected to Antrim Borough Council for the Democratic Unionist Party in 1981. In 1996, he was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum, representing South Antrim, and he held the seat at the 1998 and 2003 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. He was deselected by the DUP for the 2007 election.[citation needed]

Clyde died on 19 April 2019, at the age of 85.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "Samuel Wilson Clyde". Funeral Times. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  2. ^ "The Antrim Guardian remembers former Antrim DUP councillor and MLA Wilson Clyde, who passed away on April 19th". Antrim Guardian Newspaper on Facebook. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2024.

Sources

Northern Ireland Forum
New forum Member for South Antrim
1996–1998 		Forum dissolved
Northern Ireland Assembly
New assembly MLA for Antrim South
1998–2007 		Succeeded by