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Preceded by
  
David Campbell

Children
  
2

Succeeded by
  
Spouse(s)
  
Valerie Isobel


Role
  
Politician

Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Rafton Pounder

Resigned
  
February 28, 1974


Full Name
  
Rafton John Pounder

Born
  
13 May 1933Belfast, Northern Ireland (
1933-05-13
)

Died
  
April 16, 1991, Groomsport, United Kingdom


Political party
  
Ulster Unionist Party

Rafton John Pounder (13 May 1933 — 16 April 1991) was a Pro-Assembly Unionist and Conservative Party politician in Northern Ireland.

Born at Ballynahatty, Shaw's Bridge, Belfast, the son of Cuthbert C. Pounder, Rafton Pounder was educated at Rockport School, Charterhouse and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was Chairman of the Conservative Association (CUCA).

He was elected Member of Parliament for Belfast South in a 1963 by-election, and served until February 1974 when he lost as a Pro-Assembly Unionist to the Reverend Robert Bradford of the United Ulster Unionist Coalition. Pounder was also a Member of the European Parliament from 1973 to 1974. From 1964 to 1967, he served as Secretary of the Ulster Unionist Parliamentary Party.

Married to Valerie Isobel (daughter of Robert Stewart MBE), with one son and one daughter, he lived at Groomsport, County Down, until his death at age 57.

References

Rafton Pounder Wikipedia


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