| 词条 | Peter Brush |
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Lieutenant Colonel Edward James Augustus Howard Brush {{post-nominals|GBR|DSO}}{{post-nominals|GBR|CB}}{{post-nominals|GBR|OBE}}, known as Peter, (5 March 1901 – 22 July 1984) was a Northern Irish unionist politician and paramilitary leader. In later life Brush was also known by the nickname "Basil", as a joke based on the television puppet Basil Brush.[1] Brush was born in Fermoy, County Cork, the son of Major George Howard Brush and May Florence Farrell. Educated at Clifton College[2] and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Brush spent his early teenage years at his father's citrus plantation in Canada, later returning to Drumnabreeze House, Magheralin, County Down.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}} He had a distinguished career in the British Army and during the Second World War he was wounded in France in 1940 before being held as a prisoner of war for three years.[3] He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his actions during the defence of Calais in 1940.[4] By the time he retired from the army he had reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.[3] Settling in County Down he took up farming but remained involved in military activity with the Territorial Army.[3] He also served as deputy Lord Lieutenant of Down until resigning from the position in 1974.[5][6] Brush first received public attention in 1973 when stories appeared in the press that he had been drilling his own right-wing loyalist private militia force. Claiming 5,000 members, the group, known as Down Orange Welfare, became involved in the Ulster Workers' Council strike of 1974, with Brush taking a leading role in planning the stoppage as a member of the Ulster Workers' Council's Co-ordinating Committee.[3] Brush was also president of the South Down Ulster Unionist Party Association and represented the constituency in the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention.[3] He left the public eye after a second less successful loyalist strike in 1977.[7] In 1935 he married Susan Mary Torbett; they had one daughter, Maureen Rosemary Brush, who was born in 1940.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}} He died, aged 83, in Dublin. References1. ^Ian S. Wood, Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, p. 34 {{s-start}}{{s-par|ni/cc}}{{s-new | Convention}}{{s-ttl2. ^ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p340: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948 3. ^1 2 3 4 W.D. Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-1993, The Blackstaff Press, 1994, p. 107 4. ^[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37274/supplement/4682] 5. ^Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th century, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000, p. 213 6. ^[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Belfast/issue/3073/page/662] 7. ^Ciarán Ó Maoláin, The Radical Right: A World Directory, Longman, 1987, p. 334 | title = Member for South Down | years = 1975–1976 }}{{s-non | reason = Convention dissolved }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Brush, Peter}}{{NorthernIreland-politician-stub}} 20 : 1901 births|1984 deaths|Ulster Unionist Party politicians|Members of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention|Farmers from Northern Ireland|Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst|British Army personnel of World War II|British World War II prisoners of war|Companions of the Order of the Bath|Officers of the Order of the British Empire|World War II prisoners of war held by Germany|Politicians from County Cork|High Sheriffs of Down|Deputy Lieutenants of Down|People educated at Clifton College|Rifle Brigade officers|Companions of the Distinguished Service Order|King's African Rifles officers|People of The Troubles (Northern Ireland)|People from Fermoy |
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