Antony Alcock

Professor Antony Alcock (12 September 1936 - 2 September 2006 [http://inside.ulster.ac.uk/2006/10/16/obituary-professor-antony-alcock University of Ulster] ) was a historian and Ulster Unionist politician.

Born in Valletta, Malta, he grew up in Devon and Hampshire [http://www.guardian.co.uk/otherlives/story/0,,1969811,00.html "The Guardian"] while at Harrow School from 1950 to 1954 [ [http://inside.ulster.ac.uk/2006/10/16/obituary-professor-antony-alcock University of Ulster] ] . Following his education he was Commissioned during National Service into the Seaforth Highlanders [http://inside.ulster.ac.uk/2006/10/16/obituary-professor-antony-alcock University of Ulster] . After leaving the Army in 1957 he studied History and Political Science at McGill University Montreal following which he moved to the United States and 1962 he gained an MA in History from Stanford University. He studied for his doctorate in the history of Bolzano-Bozen, at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva between 1963 and 1968. In September 1974 he became Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of West European Studies at the University of Ulster, where he stayed until 2001.

His first political involvement was as chairman of the County Londonderry campaign to ‘Keep Britain in Europe’ during the 1975 referendum. In the same year he was tasked by the Chairman of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention, Sir Robert Lowrey to produce a paper on similar conflicts in Europe [ [http://davidtrimble.org/speeches_alcock.pdf Speech by David Trimble] ] .

In the 1996 elections to the Northern Ireland Forum, Alcock was elected as one of the two UUP 'top up' candidates for the forum, along with Sir John Gorman. [ [http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/ff96.htm The 1996 Forum Elections ] ]

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