Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George’s’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British politician
Is Politician 
From United Kingdom 
Type Politics 
Gender female
Birth 2 November 1931, Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Age: 88 years
Star sign Scorpio
Politics Democratic Unionist Party
Family
Spouse: Ian Paisley 
Children: Ian Paisley Jr. 

Eileen Emily Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George’s, Baroness Bannside (née Cassells; born 2 November 1931, Belfast), 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.

Early life

Eileen Emily Cassells married Ian Richard Kyle Paisley on 13 October 1956. They have five children, a daughter Rhonda (a graduate of Bob Jones University, who served as a member of Belfast City Council but has long since left politics), and two further daughters Sharon and Cherith. They also have twin sons, Kyle and Ian (the former a Free Presbyterian minister, the latter a DUP MP).

Career

Eileen Paisley was elected as a councillor in Belfast in 1967 for the Protestant Unionist Party, the forerunner to the DUP, three years before her husband was elected to Stormont and Westminster. She was also elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973 and the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention in 1975, representing Belfast East both times.

It was announced on 11 April 2006 that she would be one of the first three members of the DUP to be created a life peer. She was gazetted on 14 June 2006 as Baroness Paisley of St George’s, of St George’s in the County of Antrim, after the ward that she represented on Belfast City Council. She was introduced to the House of Lords on 3 July 2006. In June 2010, she gained the additional title, by courtesy, of Baroness Bannside, of North Antrim in the County of Antrim, when her husband was also elevated to the peerage as Ian chose not to be titled “Lord Paisley” on the grounds that it would have devalued Eileen’s title if he had. From 6 June 2013, Paisley was on a leave of absence from the House of Lords before retiring in October 2017.

In a December 2015 interview with the BBC, Paisley stated that she would “not go out of her way” to vote for the DUP in future elections following the party’s alleged “betrayal” over her late husband’s resignation as party leader in 2008.

Arms

Coat of arms of Eileen Paisley, Baroness Paisley of St George’s
Adopted
2007
Coronet
Coronet of a Baroness
Escutcheon
Azure three Pallets wavy Argent enfiling five Mural Crowns in cross Or
Supporters
On either side two Dragons the dexter Argent wings feathered Or the sinister Or wings feathered Argent
Motto
CROWNED WITH LOVING KINDNESS
Symbolism
The wavy pallets are a river allusion and are shown enfiling five crowns as a pun on the grantee’s maiden name of Cassells. Five is a significant number as the grantee has five children. Dragons refer to St George and have been differenced by membering them with feathered rather than reptilian wings.
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