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Robert Corkey PC (NI) (1881 – 26 January 1966) was a Presbyterian minister, a professor of theology and a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Biography

He was born at Glendermott Parish, Waterside, Derry, the son of Rev. Dr Joseph Corkey. He was educated at Foyle College, Magee College, Queen's College, Belfast, the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a Minister of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland at Ballygawley from 1906 to 1910 and Monaghan from 1910 to 1917; and then Professor of Ethics and Practical Theology at Assembly's College, Belfast from 1917 to 1951. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland from 1945 to 1946.

He was elected to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland from the Queen's University seat in 1929, and represented the university until his resignation on election to the Senate in 1943 (in which he served until 1965). He served as Assistant Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance and Assistant Whip from 1942 to 1943. He served in Sir Basil Brooke's Cabinet as Minister of Education from 1943 to 1944, joining the Privy Council (Northern Ireland) on his promotion. He was Deputy Speaker of the Senate from 1952 to 1953 and from 1957 to 1958. He died on 26 January 1966.

References

1. "Very Rev. Dr. Robert Corkey". The Times. 28 January 1966. p. 14.
2. ^ Northern Ireland Parliamentary Elections Results: Biographies

External links

• Works by or about Robert Corkey at the Internet Archive

• 1881 births
• 1966 deaths
• Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1929–1933
• Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1933–1938
• Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1938–1945
• Members of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland
• Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1941–1945
• Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1945–1949
• Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1949–1953
• Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1953–1957
• Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1957–1961
• Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1961–1965
• Northern Ireland Cabinet ministers (Parliament of Northern Ireland)
• Northern Ireland junior government ministers (Parliament of Northern Ireland)
• Ulster Unionist Party members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland
• Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
• Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
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• 20th-century Presbyterian ministers from Northern Ireland
• People educated at Foyle College
• Moderators of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
• Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for Queen's University of Belfast
• Ulster Unionist Party members of the Senate of Northern Ireland
• Christian clergy from Derry (city)
• Politicians from Derry (city)
• Scholars and academics from County Londonderry