| 词条 | William McCrea, Baron McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown |
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| honorific-prefix = The Reverend and Right Honourable Doctor | name = The Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | honorific-suffix = | image = | caption = | office4 = Member of the Legislative Assembly for South Antrim | assembly = | term_start4 = 7 March 2007 | term_end4 = 1 July 2010 (resigned) | predecessor4 = multiple members | successor4 = Paul Girvan | office5 = Member of the Legislative Assembly for Mid-Ulster | assembly5 = | term_start5 = 25 June 1998 | term_end5 = 7 March 2007 | majority5 = | predecessor5 = Office created | successor5 = multiple members | office = Member of Parliament for South Antrim | term_start = 5 May 2005 | term_end = 30 March 2015 | majority = | predecessor = David Burnside | successor = Danny Kinahan | parliament2 = | term_start2 = 21 September 2000 | term_end2 = 14 May 2001 | majority2 = | predecessor2 = Clifford Forsythe | successor2 = David Burnside | office3 = Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster | parliament3 = | term_start3 = 9 June 1983 | term_end3 = 1 May 1997 | majority3 = | predecessor3 = John Dunlop | successor3 = Martin McGuinness |office7 = Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |term_start7 = 19 June 2018 Life Peerage |term_end7 = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|08|6|df=yes}} | birth_place = Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = British | spouse = | party = Democratic Unionist Party | relations = | children = 5 (including Ian McCrea) | residence = Magherafelt, County Londonderry | alma_mater = Raveanhill Theological Hall | occupation = | profession = Clergyman | signature = | website = William McCrea | footnotes = }} Rt. Hon. Rev. Dr Robert Thomas William McCrea, Baron McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown, D.D. (born 6 August 1948) is a Free Presbyterian minister from Northern Ireland.[1] A former Democratic Unionist Party politician, he represented South Antrim and Mid Ulster as their Member of Parliament.[2] Early life and educationMcCrea was the youngest of five children born to Robert Thomas (a famer in Stewartstown, Northern Ireland) and Sarah Jayne in August 1948.[3] He was educated in Magherafelt and spent a short time working in Social Security in the Civil Service of Northern Ireland before beginning training as a Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster minister. He undertook this training at Ravenhill Theological Hall, on the Ravenhill Road in Belfast.{{cn|date=August 2018}} McCrea received an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Mariette Bible College, Ohio, United States.[4] CareerMcCrea was a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) member of Magherafelt District Council from its creation in 1973 until he stood down to concentrate on Westminster duties in 2010, and topped the poll in every local government election he contested from 1973–2005.{{cn|date=August 2018}} He ran unsuccessfully for the House of Commons in the 1982 Belfast South by-election. He was Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster from 1983 but lost this seat to Sinn Féin chief negotiator and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at the 1997 election. He took South Antrim at a by-election in 2000 caused by the death of Ulster Unionist Party MP, Clifford Forsythe, but failed to retain this seat at the 2001 election. In the 2005 election he regained the seat. He was subsequently defeated by the Ulster Unionist Party in 2015.[5] In 1996 he was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum for Mid-Ulster.[6] From 1998 to 2007 he was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Mid Ulster. He was therefore a political representative for two separate constituencies (Mid Ulster and South Antrim) from 2000 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2007. At the 2007 election, he was elected as an Assembly Member for South Antrim. He resigned from the Assembly in 2010, following his return to Westminster at the general election of that year.[7] He is also the minister of Magherafelt Free Presbyterian Church and has made numerous gospel albums.{{cn|date=August 2018}} McCrea was created a Life Peer on 19 June 2018 taking the title Baron McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown, of Magherafelt in the County of Londonderry and of Cookstown in the County of Tyrone.[8] Controversy and paramilitary associationsMcCrea was a member of the Shankill Defence Association and in 1971 he was convicted of riotous behaviour in Dungiven.[9][10] In 1975 he led a prayer service at the paramilitary funerals of Wesley Somerville and Harris Boyle. The two terrorists were part of the Glenanne gang which carried out the Miami Showband killings and were accidentally blown up when the bomb they were planting in the band's minibus went off prematurely, killing them instantly.[10] McCrea was the target of a parcel bomb to his home on 9 August 1988, when a package sent by the Irish People's Liberation Organisation was disarmed. McCrea had become suspicious when he noticed the package had a Dublin postmark.[11] McCrea was criticised when he appeared on a platform at a Portadown rally in support of the senior Ulster loyalist paramilitary Billy Wright, who had been threatened by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) leadership, in September 1996.[12][13][14][15] Wright was the founder and leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (which had broken away from the UVF), and had been threatened after he broke the UVF ceasefire by ordering the death of Catholic civilian Michael McGoldrick.[16][17] In 2000, McCrea was the subject of an early day motion by two MPs, Harry Barnes and Sir Peter Bottomley. The motion referenced a claim that McCrea had visited Wright's successor as LVF leader in order to persuade the LVF not to decommission any of its weapons.[18] Call for British airstrikes against Irish townsA Northern Ireland Office memo released under the thirty-year rule in December 2014 revealed that McCrea had called for the Royal Air Force to carry out "strikes against Dundalk, Drogheda, Crossmaglen and Carrickmore" at the DUP's annual conference in April 1986.[19] Alternative medicineMcCrea is a supporter of homeopathy, having signed several early day motions in support of its continued funding on the National Health Service, sponsored by Conservative MP David Tredinnick.[20] References1. ^{{cite web|last=Walker|first=Stephen|title=MPs call on government to secure NI air routes|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18521168|work=BBC News|accessdate=30 August 2012}} 2. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.mydup.com/who-we-are/william-mccrea |title=Profile: William McCrea MP}} 3. ^{{cite book |last1=Porter |first1=David |last2=McCrea |first2=William |title=In His Pathway: Story of William McCrea |date=December 1980 |publisher=Lakeland Publishing}} 4. ^{{cite web|author=Northern Ireland Assembly Information Office |url=http://archive.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs_03/mccrea_w.htm |title=William McCrea |publisher=Northern Ireland Assembly |date=26 November 2003 |accessdate=4 August 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.eoni.org.uk/Elections/Election-results-and-statistics/Election-results-and-statistics-2003-onwards/Elections-2015/UK-Parliamentary-Election-Results/UK-Parliamentary-Election-Result-Belfast-East-(13)|title=The Electoral Office of Northern Ireland - EONI|website=www.eoni.org.uk}} 6. ^Northern Ireland elections 7. ^Girvan makes Stormont return, Newtownabbey Times, 8 July 2010 8. ^{{London Gazette |issue=62333 |date=25 June 2018 |page=11196}} 9. ^{{cite book | last = Moloney | first = Ed | authorlink = Ed Moloney | title = Paisley | publisher = Poolbeg Press | year = 2008 | page = 185 | isbn = 978-1-84223-324-5}} 10. ^1 {{cite web | title = Reg warns of violence | author = Newton Emerson | url = http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/irish_news/arts2006/aug12_Reg_warns_violence__NEmerson.php | publisher = Irish News | date = 12 August 2006 | accessdate = 25 March 2007}} 11. ^Jack Holland & Henry McDonald, INLA – Deadly Divisions, 1994, p. 310 12. ^{{cite web|author=Nicholas Watt |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wintour-and-watt/2010/sep/14/billy-wright-northern-ireland |title=Why does Ian Paisley's party show such interest in a mass murderer? | Politics |publisher=The Guardian |date=14 September 2010 |accessdate=4 August 2016}} 13. ^{{cite web|author=Gerry Moriarty |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/mccrea-defends-show-of-support-for-wright-1.83433 |title=McCrea defends show of support for Wright |publisher=Irishtimes.com |date=8 April 2016 |accessdate=4 August 2016}} 14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/19664 |title=McCrea challenged to clarify relationship with loyalist murderer |publisher=An Phoblacht |date=5 February 2009 |accessdate=4 August 2016}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yt3gAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=mccrea+portadown+rally+wright&source=bl&ots=SFj5uJo2DV&sig=samBw3t2wM6Ka67Nh_PH1CN8CDU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEgQ6AEwCGoVChMI6aSU-YyxxwIVgdYUCh0jUQhI#v=onepage&q=mccrea%20portadown%20rally%20wright&f=false |author=Martin Dillon |title=God and the Gun: The Church and Irish Terrorism |publisher=Google Books |date=23 June 2014 |accessdate=4 August 2016}} 16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.billywrightinquiry.org/transcripts/date/20080128/ |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20101210142120/http://www.billywrightinquiry.org/transcripts/date/20080128/ |dead-url=yes |archive-date=10 December 2010 |title=The Billy Wright Inquiry Oral Hearings |publisher=Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk |date=10 December 2010 |accessdate=4 August 2016}} 17. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pUY4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT25&lpg=PT25&dq=billy+wright+threatened+uvf+leadership&source=bl&ots=LtVH4weRDi&sig=IEQAgG5xFoAeiu0srrilKtGptgQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBGoVChMIiMSVk46xxwIVglYUCh09twUq#v=onepage&q=billy%20wright%20threatened%20uvf%20leadership&f=false |title=Who Killed Rosemary Nelson?: At last, the full story of the conspiracy |author=Neil Root & Ian Hitchings |publisher=Google Books |date=4 April 2011 |accessdate=4 August 2016}} 18. ^http://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1471/hp-sauce 19. ^{{cite web | title = State papers: DUP MP William McCrea wanted air strikes launched on the Republic in the 1980s | author = Adrian Rutherford | url = http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/state-papers-dup-mp-william-mccrea-wanted-air-strikes-launched-on-the-republic-in-the-1980s-30867020.html | publisher = Belfast Telegraph | date = 29 December 2014 | accessdate = 29 December 2014}} 20. ^{{cite web |url=http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=41216&SESSION=905 |title=Early Day Motion #284 British Medical Association Motions on Homeopathy |date=29 June 2010 |author=Tredinnick, David}} External links
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