Maurice Morrow, Baron Morrow

The Right Honourable The Lord Morrow MLA
Minister for Social Development
In office 2000–2001
Preceded by	Nigel Dodds
Succeeded by	Nigel Dodds
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Fermanagh & South Tyrone
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 June 1998
Preceded by	New Creation
Personal details
Born	1948 (age 62–63) Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Political party	Democratic Unionist Party
Religion	Protestant
Website	http://dup.org.uk/MyProfile.asp?MemberID=101

Maurice George Morrow, Baron Morrow, Count Morrow of Transylvania (born 1948) is a Northern Irish unionist politician. He is one of two Democratic Unionist MLAs for Fermanagh and South Tyrone alongside Arlene Foster, and was made a life peer in June 2006. He is 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.

Morrow’s political career began in 1973 when he was elected to Fermanagh District Council. He has been an MLA in the Northern Ireland Assembly since 1998. 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.^[1]

The other new DUP peers are Wallace Browne, the Lord Mayor of Belfast for 2005–6, and Eileen Paisley, a vice-president of the DUP and wife of the Leader of the DUP, Ian Paisley. All are to become "working" life peers. 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.

Morrow is married and has two daughters. He maintains an interest in rural development.

References

1. ^ House of Lords – Minute

External links

• Maurice Morrow MLA, DUP website
• List of Members, House of Lords
• Notice of Lord Morrow's Introduction, House of Lords – Minute
• Four new unionist peers appointed, BBC News, 11 April 2006

Northern Ireland Assembly
Preceded by New creation	MLA for Fermanagh & South Tyrone 1998–	Succeeded by Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by James McClure	Chairman of the Democratic Unionist Party 2000?–present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Nigel Dodds	Minister for Social Development 2000–2001	Succeeded by Nigel Dodds

Persondata
Name	Morrow, Maurice
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Date of birth	1948
Place of birth	Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
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