Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's

Eileen Emily Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George's, Baroness Bannside (née Cassells; born 2 November 1931), is a Northern Irish Unionist politician, a vice-president of the Democratic Unionist Party, and the widow of Ian Paisley, Lord Bannside, former leader of the DUP. She became a life peer in 2006. She retired from the House of Lords on 30 October 2017.

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Paisley of St George's
Paisley in 2011
Member of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
for Belfast East
In office
1 May 1975  20 October 1982
Member of the Legislative Assembly
for Belfast East
In office
28 June 1973  1 May 1975
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
14 June 2006  30 October 2017
Life peerage
Personal details
Born
Eileen Emily Cassells

(1931-11-02) 2 November 1931
Political partyDemocratic Unionist Party
Spouse
(m. 1956; died 2014)
Children5, including Rhonda and Ian Jr
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