Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
Herbert Kirk | |
Office: | Minister of Finance |
Parliament: | Northern Ireland Assembly |
Chiefexecutive: | Brian Faulkner |
Term Start: | January 1974 |
Term End: | May 1974 |
Predecessor: | Position created |
Successor: | Executive suspended |
Office2: | Minister of Finance |
Parliament2: | Parliament of Northern Ireland |
Monarch2: | Elizabeth II |
Primeminister2: | Terence O'Neill 1965–69 James Chichester-Clark 1969–71 Brian Faulkner 1971–72 |
Term Start2: | 1965 |
Term End2: | 1972 |
Predecessor2: | Ivan Neill |
Successor2: | Position prorogued |
Office3: | Minister of Education |
Parliament3: | Northern Ireland |
Monarch3: | Elizabeth II |
Primeminister3: | Terence O'Neill |
Term Start3: | 1964 |
Term End3: | 1965 |
Predecessor3: | Ivan Neill |
Successor3: | William Fitzsimmons |
Office4: | Minister of Labour |
Parliament4: | Northern Ireland |
Monarch4: | Elizabeth II |
Primeminister4: | Basil Brooke 1962–63 Terence O'Neill 1963–64 |
Term Start4: | 1962 |
Term End4: | 1964 |
Predecessor4: | Ivan Neill |
Successor4: | William James Morgan |
Constituency Mp5: | Belfast Windsor |
Term Start5: | 23 November 1956 |
Term End5: | 30 March 1972 |
Predecessor5: | Archibald Wilson |
Successor5: | Parliament abolished |
Majority5: | Elected unopposed |
Birth Name: | Herbert Kirk |
Birth Date: | 5 June 1912 |
Birth Place: | Belfast, Ireland |
Death Date: | 4 March 2006 (aged 93) |
Death Place: | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Ulster Unionist Party |
Alma Mater: | Queen's University, Belfast |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Accountant |
Herbert Victor Kirk PC (5 June 1912 – 4 March 2006) was an Ulster Unionist cabinet minister in Parliament of Northern Ireland.
Born in Belfast, Kirk studied at Queen's University, Belfast before becoming an accountant.
Kirk became active in the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and in 1956 was elected to represent Belfast Windsor in the Parliament of Northern Ireland. In 1962, he became the Minister of Labour and National Insurance, also joining the Privy Council of Northern Ireland. In 1964, he moved to become Minister of Education, and the following year, Minister of Finance.
After the abolition of the Parliament, Kirk was elected in Belfast South to the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. He was a supporter of Brian Faulkner, and was re-appointed as Minister of Finance (de facto Deputy Prime Minister) until the assembly's suspension in May 1974, after which he quit politics.[1]