Robert Samuel Nixon

Robert Samuel Nixon (May 1909 – January 1998)^[1] was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Bob Nixon studied at Mountjoy School in Dublin, then at Queen's University, Belfast, where he qualified as a doctor of medicine. At the Northern Ireland general election, 1953, he was elected for the Ulster Unionist Party in North Down.^[2]

In 1965, Nixon revealed that unionists in Derry had helped convince the Government of Northern Ireland to site the New University of Ulster in Coleraine, rather than their own city, which had a Roman Catholic majority. In response to this, he was suspended from the Parliamentary party for several months.^[3] He stood down at the Northern Ireland general election, 1969, but stood unsuccessfully as an independent Unionist in the 1970 general election, again in North Down.^[2]

References

1. ↑ BMJ obituary
2. 1 2 Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons
3. ↑ Tim Pat Coogan, The Troubles, p.43