John McQuade

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'''John McQuade''' (9 August 1911 – 19 November 1984) was a Northern Irish unionist politician. He was a professional boxer under the name of Jack Higgins.

==Career== After serving with the British Army in Dunkirk and Burma, he was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) member of Belfast City Council from 1955 to 1972. He was a UUP Member of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for Belfast Woodvale (Greater Shankill) from 1965 to October 1971, when he resigned from the UUP and joined the Democratic Unionist Party. On 28 March 1972 (the last day the Parliament sat), he resigned his parliamentary seat in protest at the prorogation of the Parliament.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/stormontpapers/pageview.html?volumeno=84&pageno=1538#fwd-84-1538 |title=The Stormont Papers – View Volumes |publisher=Stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2010-07-12 |archive-date=15 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215211007/http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/stormontpapers/pageview.html?volumeno=84&pageno=1538#fwd-84-1538 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In February 1972, in response to the escalating violence in Northern Ireland, he called for the British security forces to take over the town of Newry and for the border with the Republic of Ireland to be closed,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/stormontpapers/pageview.html?volumeno=84&pageno=100#bak-84-141 |title=The Stormont Papers – View Volumes |publisher=Stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2010-07-12 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195848/http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/stormontpapers/pageview.html?volumeno=84&pageno=100#bak-84-141 |url-status=dead }}</ref> stating his belief that the Roman Catholic Church controlled the government of the Republic of Ireland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/stormontpapers/pageview.html?volumeno=84&pageno=100#fwd-84-139 |title=The Stormont Papers – View Volumes |publisher=Stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2010-07-12 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303195848/http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/stormontpapers/pageview.html?volumeno=84&pageno=100#fwd-84-139 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He contested the February and October 1974 Westminster elections unsuccessfully for Belfast West. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Belfast North in 1979, aged 67, and served until 1983, when he retired. He died on 19 November 1984, aged 73.

==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== *''Times Guide to the House of Commons'', 1979 *{{rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}

== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-john-mcquade | John McQuade }}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|ni}} {{s-bef | before = Billy Boyd }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Belfast Woodvale | years = 1965–1972 }} {{s-non|reason=Parliament abolished}}

{{s-par|ni/ass73}} {{s-new | assembly}} {{s-ttl | title = Assembly Member for North Belfast | years = 1973–1974 }} {{s-non | reason = Assembly abolished }}

{{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Belfast North | years = 1979–1983 | before = John Carson | after = Cecil Walker }} {{s-end}}

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