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Sep 27, 1948 Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 75 years old
Northern Irish unionist politician
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About Maurice Morrow
- Maurice George Morrow, Baron Morrow (born 27 September 1948) is a Northern Irish unionist politician.
- He was made a life peer in June 2006.
- He was also a councillor on Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council representing Dungannon Town. He was educated at Ballygawley Primary School, Dungannon Secondary and Dungannon Technical College, following which he pursued a career as an estate agent.
- His political career began in 1973 when he was elected to Fermanagh District Council.
- He served as a MLA of the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998, until losing his seat in 2017.
- In July 2000 he became Minister for Social Development in the Northern Ireland Executive, a position held until October 2001, during which time he was credited with implementing policies recognising the needs of the elderly, the farming community and introduced new measures to tackle welfare fraud.It was announced on 11 April 2006 that Morrow would be one of the first three members of the DUP to be created life peers, giving the party its first representation in the House of Lords.
- He was created Baron Morrow, of Clogher Valley in the County of Tyrone, on 7 June 2006 and was formally introduced to the House of Lords on 27 June.The other DUP peers appointed as "working" life peers were Wallace Browne, former Lord Mayor of Belfast, and Eileen Paisley, a former vice-president of the DUP and wife of the late Leader of the DUP, Ian Paisley.
- At the same time, it was announced that David Trimble, former MP and former leader of the Ulster Unionists, was also being appointed as a working life peer.
