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Roy bradford biography

          Roy Hamilton Bradford was a Northern Irish unionist politician.

        1. Roy Bradford was an almost accidental politician: only in his 40s did he show any active interest in politics, but he became a senior Northern Ireland.
        2. Background.
        3. The late Roy Bradford served with Army Intelligence during the Second World War and subsequently worked as a TV producer and writer.
        4. Bradford, Roy Hamilton (–98), journalist and politician, was born 7 July in the schoolmaster's house attached to the Church of Ireland church on.

          5. Background..

          Roy Bradford (1920 - 1998):
          Politician; author and journalist

          Roy Bradford
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          Roy Bradford was an almost accidental politician: only in his 40s did he show any active interest in politics, but he became a senior Northern Ireland Government figure and was at the centre of the turbulent events of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

          Bradford was from Ligoniel in north Belfast, though his father's family originally came from County Monaghan, and he went to school at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution; from there he proceeded to the University of Dublin, where he excelled academically, winning a Foundation Scholarship in his first year, a notable achievement, and gaining a first class honours degree and a Gold Medal in French and German in 1942.

          This ability - and not just this as he was man of high intelligence and wide intellectual interests - led him to work for Army Intelligence from 1943-1947, where he was stationed in north-west Europe. When t