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David Ford
MLA
Minister of Justice
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 April 2010
First Minister Peter Robinson
Preceded by New Creation
Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Incumbent
Assumed office
2001
Preceded by Séan Neeson
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for South Antrim
Incumbent
Assumed office
25 June 1998
Preceded by New Creation
Personal details
Born (1951-02-24) 24 February 1951 (age 61)
Political party Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Spouse(s) Anne Ford
Children 4
Alma mater Queen's University Belfast
Religion Presbyterian
Website https://www.davidford.org/

David Ford (born 24 February 1951) is a politician who is a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Ford has been leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland since 2001 and has been Northern Ireland Minister of Justice since April 2010.

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Early life [link]

Ford was born on 24 February 1951 to Northern Irish and Welsh parents and grew up in Orpington, Kent, England. Ford was educated at Warren Road Primary School, Orpington and Dulwich College, London. He spent summer holidays on his uncle's farm in Gortin, County Tyrone, and moved to Northern Ireland permanently in 1969 when he went to study Economics at Queen's University Belfast. There he joined the university's student Alliance Party grouping. After graduating, Ford took a year out to work as a volunteer at the ecumenical Corrymeela Community in Ballycastle, County Antrim, before starting work as a social worker in 1973.

Political career [link]

Ford stood unsuccessfully for Antrim Borough Council in 1989, and entered politics full-time when be became general secretary of the Alliance Party. In that role, he was best known as a strong supporter of the then-leader John Alderdice and an advocate of better political organisation and community politics. He was elected to Antrim Borough Council in 1993, 1997 and - after leaving the Council in 2001 to concentrate on Assembly business - again in 2005.

In 1996, Ford stood unsuccessfully for election to the Northern Ireland Forum in South Antrim, but was a key member[citation needed] of Alliance's team to the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement. In 1997, he obtained 12% of the vote in the British General Election in South Antrim, and in 1998 was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in the constituency of the same name. He fought South Antrim again in the 2000 by-election and in the 2001 and 2005 general elections.

Alliance Party leadership [link]

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In 2001, Séan Neeson resigned from the Party leadership following poor election results. David Ford won the leadership election on 6 October by 86 votes to 45, ahead of Eileen Bell. Ford was identified[by whom?] with the more Liberal, internationalist wing of Alliance, while Bell was a more traditionalist, bridge-building, candidate.[citation needed] Notably, Ford was also the only Alliance MLA to be also a member of the Liberal Democrats at the time.

Ford outlined his internationalist view point in his speech at the leadership selection when he said:

I am keen to co-operate with other non-sectarian groups in Northern Ireland, including political parties that will stand against the tribal divide. Our links to the South are not as good as they should be, either with the PDs or with Fine Gael, where we have many natural allies. We must also recognise that Northern Ireland is not unique in the world. Our stand is not different in substance from those who work for peace and reconciliation in Cyprus, Palestine or Bosnia. We should learn from friends abroad. To suggest that 'our wee province' is unique is to do a disservice. There is little more objectionable than the sight of the political begging bowl being dragged out by sectional politicians.

Ford gave Alliance a stability which it had lacked since the departure of John Alderdice, but the Party had declined seriously in the late 1990s and all Ford could do was stabilise the situation. Within a month of taking over the leadership, however, Ford had a chance to establish Alliance's relevancy in the post-Good Friday Agreement environment - on 6 November 2001, the Northern Ireland Executive was to be re-established. However, due to defections within his own Ulster Unionist Party, First Minister David Trimble, had insufficient support within the Unionist bloc in the Assembly to be re-elected to his post. Ford and two of his five colleagues re-designated as Unionist, for just 22 minutes, in order to secure Trimble's position, and thereby enabled the devolved institutions to operate for another year. However, Alliance failed to make any political gains from their move, and the UUP and Sinn Féin failed to reach agreement on the decommissioning issue, ensuring that the institutions collapsed again in October 2002.

In the Northern Ireland Assembly Elections of 2003, Ford's seat in the Assembly was perceived to be under severe threat from Sinn Féin's Martin Meehan, with many commentators expecting him to lose it. However, Ford's expertise in nuts and bolts electioneering stood him in good stead. Although Alliance's vote almost halved, Ford's own vote in South Antrim increased from 8.6% to 9.1%. Meehan's vote increased dramatically, from 7.3% to 11.5%, and he started the election count ahead. However Ford had much greater transfer appeal and finished 180 votes ahead of Meehan at the end of a dramatic three-way fight for the last two seats, with the SDLP's Thomas Burns just 14 votes ahead of Ford. Despite the dramatic fall in vote, Alliance, almost miraculously, held on to its six seats in the Assembly, which remained suspended.[1]

In 2004, Ford made good his leadership election pledge to work with other parties, as Alliance joined with the Workers' Party, Northern Ireland Conservatives and elements of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition to support Independent candidate John Gilliland[2] in the European elections, achieving the best result for the centre ground for 25 years.

Ford's greatest triumph came in the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election, when the party achieved its highest vote share since Alderdice's departure and picked up a seat in what was an otherwise poor election for the moderates. Despite media predictions once again of his demise, Ford himself was elected third in South Antrim, with over 13% of the poll. In the 2011 Assembly elections, the Alliance Party managed to increase their vote by 50% gaining an extra seat in East Belfast and surpassing the Ulster Unionist Party in Belfast.

Northern Ireland Justice Minister [link]

On 12 April 2010, Ford was chosen by the Assembly to become Northern Ireland's first Justice Minister in 38 years. Ford was supported in the Assembly by the DUP, Sinn Féin, the Alliance Party, the Green Party and the Progressive Unionist Party. Separate candidates for the position were put forward by both the Ulster Unionists and the SDLP, being Danny Kennedy and Alban McGuinness respectively.

Personal life [link]

David Ford is married to Anne, has four grown-up children and lives in rural County Antrim. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.

See also [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/03sa.htm
  2. ^ https://www.gilliland1.org

External links [link]

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Preceded by
Eileen Bell		 General Secretary of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
1990–1998		 Succeeded by
Richard Good
Preceded by
Sean Neeson		 Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
2001–present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
Northern Ireland Assembly
Preceded by
New creation		 MLA for Antrim South
1998 -		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by
New creation		 Minister of Justice
2010 - present		 Succeeded by
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House of Commons
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David Ford (musician)

David James Ford (born 16 May 1978, Dartford, Kent) is a British music artist. He first achieved prominence with the indie rock group Easyworld, who released an independent mini-album, ...Better Ways to Self Destruct and two full-length albums on Jive Records before disbanding in 2004.

As a solo artist, he has released four albums to date, two of which were named "Album of The Year" in both The Sunday Times and Word Magazine. David has toured the world opening for such artists as KT Tunstall, Gomez, Elvis Costello, Ingrid Michaelson and Ray LaMontagne and he has played the UK Latitude Festival, Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits. Ford has also performed on Last Call With Carson Daly and Sun Studio Sessions. The Guardian called him “unmissable... one of Britain's best."

History

Early years and Easyworld

Having played in several local groups together through their school years, Ford - who went on to attend Manchester University - and drummer Glenn Hooper formed the band Beachy Head in Eastbourne in the late 1990s. Soon after, the band was completed by bassist Jo Taylor. The trio recorded several demos and an unreleased album as Beachy Head before renaming the band Easyworld. The new name for the band was taken from the line "It's an easy world" in their song Better Ways to Self Destruct.

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David Ford (kayaker)

David Watson Ford (born March 23, 1967 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian slalom canoeist who has competed since the mid-1980s and is still actively competing. He is Canada's most successful slalom paddler.

Ford has won two medals in the K-1 event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. In 1999 he became the first non-European to win the World Championship title. Ford followed up with a World Championship silver in 2003. In 2003 he also won the overall World Cup title in K-1. He was named Male Athlete of the Year at the 2003 Canadian Sport Awards, and was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.

Ford has competed in five Summer Olympics, earning a fourth-place finish in the K-1 event in Athens in 2004. He had a sixth-place finish in the same event in 2008 in Beijing.

On April 25, 2009, Ford married Canadian alpine skier Kelly VanderBeek. They have a son, Cooper.

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  • ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
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    David Ford (marketing scientist)

    David Ford (born 1944) is a British organizational theorist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Bath School of Management, and co-founder of the International Marketing and Purchasing Group (IMP Group) in the mid 1970s. He is known for his work with Håkan Håkansson on business networks.

    Biography

    Ford obtained his BSc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Salford, his MSc at the University of Bradford, and his PhD at the Manchester Business School. In 2007 he was awarded an Honorary Degree from the Uppsala Universitet, Sweden for developing "a worldwide system for improving the way companies interact with customers and suppliers."

    Ford started his academic career at the University of Bath as lecturer, and promoted to senior lecturer, reader and in 1989 Professor of Marketing. In 2008 he retired as Emeritus Professor, and became Affiliate Professor at KEDGE Business School in Marseille, France. In 1976 he was co-founder of the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing Group (IMP group).

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    David F. Ford

    David Frank Ford (born 23 January 1948,Dublin) is an academic and public theologian. He has been the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge since 1991. His research interests include political theology, ecumenical theology, Christian theologians and theologies, theology and poetry, the shaping of universities and of the field of theology and religious studies within universities, hermeneutics, and inter-faith theology and relations. He is the founding director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme and a co-founder of the Society for Scriptural Reasoning.

    Early life and education

    Ford was raised as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland in Dublin. His father died when he was 12 years old and he was raised by his mother, Phyllis Mary Elizabeth Ford.

    For his undergraduate education, he studied at Trinity College Dublin, where he was active in politics, debate and journalism. He was elected a scholar in classics in 1968. After completing his degree, he interviewed for jobs at British Steel and Rolls-Royce, but then was offered a scholarship to St John's College at the University of Cambridge and decided to study theology for a few years before going into business. He earned his bachelor's degree in theology at Cambridge and went on to earn his Master of Sacred Theology degree at Yale Divinity School; he also did graduate work at the University of Tübingen. He gained his doctorate at Cambridge, writing his dissertation on Karl Barth and biblical narrative under the direction of Donald MacKinnon and Stephen Sykes. The result was the book Barth and God's Story (1981). Ford later received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Birmingham.

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    David Ford (actor)

    David Ford (October 30, 1925 – August 7, 1983) was an American character actor best known for playing John Hancock in the musical-turned-motion-picture 1776.

    Career

    He appeared in the role of Sam Evans #2, a widower and an artist and father of Maggie Evans (Kathryn Leigh Scott) on the ABC-TV serial Dark Shadows from 1966 to 1968. He assumed the role when the actor who originated the role departed during the show's first week. He also played Andre du Pres, the father of Josette du Pres, in the show's 1795 storyline.

    He later played the contract role of Karl Devlin on the CBS soap opera Search for Tomorrow.

    He made his Broadway debut as O'Kelly in the 1957 revival of Mary Stuart, and later took over as the Duke of Norfolk in the original production of A Man For All Seasons. On stage, his best known role was John Hancock in the musical 1776 and the 1972 film adaptation.

    Personal life

    Ford was born in La Jolla, California. In 1967, he married his Dark Shadows co-star, Nancy Barrett. They divorced in 1969.

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    David, Chiriquí

    David (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈβið]) officially San José de David is a city and corregimiento located in the west of Panama. It is the capital of the province of Chiriquí and has an estimated population of 144,858 inhabitants as confirmed in 2013. It is a relatively affluent city with a firmly established, dominant middle class and a very low unemployment and poverty index. The Pan-American Highway is a popular route to David.

    The development of the banking sector, public construction works such as the expansion of the airport and the David-Boquete highway alongside the growth of commercial activity in the city have increased its prominence as one of the fastest growing regions in the country. The city is currently the economic center of the Chiriqui province and produces more than half the gross domestic product of the province, which totals 2.1 billion. It is known for being the third-largest city in the country both in population and by GDP and for being the largest city in Western Panama.

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    Making Up For Lost Time

    by: David Ford

    There'’s this strangest feeling and I cannot seem to put my finger on it
    Hey Jokeman, roll me a cigarette just like your life depended on it
    There’s a world outside this truck stop, boys, and that’s where I’m headed to
    Now making up for lost time, well, it’s the only thing I really want to do
    Oo oo, oh oh
    It’'s all I want to do,
    Oh oh, oh oh
    If I see that girl I’m going to tell her that she was right about everything
    I haven’t seen her since that summer when, man, she left without a ring
    She made the craziest accusations, but every one of them was true
    Now making up for lost time, well, it’s the only thing I really want to do
    Oo oo, oo oo
    It'’s all I want to do,
    Oh oh, oh oh
    Well, I'’ve wasted too much time picking over all the worry in this heart of mine
    Any day I’m gonna see her, so come up on a bright blue morning (?)
    You know in all my days it’s the hardest times that are the ones I’ve missed the most
    So now get some rest, it’s still three hours before we hit the coast
    And throw your empties on the dashboard ‘cause tonight we’re driving through
    Yeah, and making up for lost time, well, it’s the only thing I really want to do
    Oh oh, oh oh
    It'’s all I really want to do
    Oh oh, oh oh
    It'’s all I really know how to do




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