What is John Laird, Baron Laird?
[[File:Lord John Laird.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Baron Laird in March 2011]] Professor '''John Dunn Laird, Baron Laird''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSA}} of [[Artigarvan]] (23 April 1944 &ndash; 10 July 2018) was a [[Northern Ireland]] [[life peer]] and former chairman of the cross-border [[Ulster-Scots Agency]]. In 2013 Laird allegedly offered to lobby for a firm against parliamentary rules. As a result, he resigned from the [[Ulster Unionist Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22742327 |title=BBC News – Three peers 'offered to lobby for fake firm' |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=1 January 1970 |access-date=2 June 2013}}</ref> He was created a [[life peer]] on 16 July 1999 as '''Baron Laird''', of [[Artigarvan]] in the [[County Tyrone|County of Tyrone]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=55559 |date=21 July 1999 |page=7857}}</ref> Laird died on 10 July 2018 in [[Belfast]] at the age of 74.<ref>[https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/northern-irish-peer-lord-laird-passes-away-37103167.html Lord Laird Passes Away]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.lordlaird.co.uk/ Lord Laird website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915082250/http://lordlaird.co.uk/ |date=2017-09-15 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110716153559/http://www.stratagem-ni.com/resources_politician.aspx?dataid=365635 John Laird, Crossbencher] Stratagem * [http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/Sunday_Tribune/arts2006/jan22_Ulsters_Braveheart__SBreen.php Ulster's 'Braveheart' on rebel hunt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192855/http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/Sunday_Tribune/arts2006/jan22_Ulsters_Braveheart__SBreen.php |date=2016-03-03 }}, Interview with the ''[[Sunday Tribune]]'', 22 January 2006 (Newshound) * [http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/l/8564/John+Dunn.aspx Debrett's Limited] * [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldhansrd/ldallfiles/peers/lord_hansard_1388_wad.html] Parliamentary answers 2010/11. {{bio-stub