Jeremy Burchill | |
Office: | Member of Belfast City Council |
Constituency: | Belfast Area A |
Term Start: | 20 May 1981 |
Term End: | 15 May 1985 |
Predecessor: | Denis Loretto |
Successor: | District abolished |
Office1: | Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for East Belfast |
Term Start1: | 20 October 1982 |
Term End1: | 1986 |
Office2: | Member of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention for South Belfast |
Term Start2: | 1975 |
Term End2: | 1976 |
Birth Place: | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Jeremy Burchill (born 1952) is a former Northern Irish unionist politician and barrister.
Burchill studied at Campbell College and Queen's University, Belfast, then became chair of the Ulster Young Unionist Council.[1] He contested the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention election in Belfast South in 1975, and was elected for the Ulster Unionist Party,[2] becoming the youngest member of the convention.[3] At the 1979 UK general election, he stood in North Antrim, taking second place, with 23.4% of the vote.[4]
Burchill was elected to Belfast City Council, representing Area A, in 1981.[5] He was also elected in the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly election, taking a seat in Belfast East.[6] He stood in the equivalent seat at the 1983 UK general election, taking 24.8% of the vote.[7]
Outside politics, Burchill was a member of both the Northern Ireland and English Bar, but had more recently worked as a consultant to financial service companies.[8]