In office 14 October 1983 – 26 August 2005 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born
(1926-04-09)9 April 1926 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died
26 August 2005(2005-08-26) (aged 79) London, England, UK
Political party
Independent (1979–2005)
Other political affiliations
Dock Labour Party (1950s) Irish Labour (to 1964) Republican Labour (1964–1970) SDLP (1970–1979)
Spouse
Ann Fitt
Children
6
Military service
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Branch/service
Merchant Navy
Years of service
1941–1953
Battles/wars
World War II
Gerard Fitt, Baron Fitt (9 April 1926 – 26 August 2005) was a politician from Northern Ireland. He was a founder and the first leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), a social democratic and Irish nationalist party.
Gerard Fitt, Baron Fitt (9 April 1926 – 26 August 2005) was a politician from Northern Ireland. He was a founder and the first leader of the Social Democratic...
republicanism. The party was founded on 21 August 1970, when six Stormont MPs (GerryFitt, Republican Labour Party; Austin Currie, Nationalist Party; Paddy Devlin...
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Foyle. But the same election saw GerryFitt, now and Independent, lose Belfast West to the new Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams. In January 1988, Hume and...
Unionist Prime Minister Brian Faulkner as chief executive, SDLP leader GerryFitt as deputy chief executive, future Nobel Laureate and SDLP leader John...
It was founded in 1964, with two MPs at Stormont, Harry Diamond and GerryFitt. They had previously been the sole Northern Ireland representatives of...
Fitt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alfred B. Fitt (1923–1992), United States lawyer GerryFitt (1926–2005), politician in Northern...
Broughton, Labour needed the support of Northern Irish MPs to tie the vote. GerryFitt, the leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, was sympathetic...
Chief Executive, then Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader GerryFitt as Deputy Chief Executive, future Nobel Laureate and SDLP leader John...
merged the Protestant Unionist Party into the new Democratic Unionist Party. Fitt was elected as a Republican Labour Party in 1966 and 1970, but later in the...
major story of the election was the victory of the colourful GerryFitt in West Belfast. Fitt, under the label of Republican Labour, successfully defeated...
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generally considered 'mild' with the exception of the address given by GerryFitt who said: "My blood is boiling at the police ban and let me tell the County...
Faulkner Chief Executive and deputy-Chief Executive (1974) Brian Faulkner/GerryFitt First Ministers and deputy First Ministers (1998–present) David Trimble...
former Republican Labour Party leader GerryFitt had formed the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). Fitt held his seat in Belfast West, but the...
former Republican Labour Party/Social Democratic and Labour Party MP GerryFitt's career suggests he was first and foremost a socialist rather than a nationalist...
City Council and went on to help found the SDLP in 1970 with John Hume, GerryFitt, Austin Currie and others. Devlin was born in the Pound Loney in the Lower...
one vote, precipitating the 1979 general election. The Nationalist MP GerryFitt abstained in the vote of no confidence and stated that he could not support...
reject this extremely irresponsible decision by the British Government". GerryFitt, leader of the SDLP, said he had organised a boycott to stop an escalation...
politics was as election agent to Republican Labour Party MP GerryFitt, although he broke from Fitt and became a close associate of Ian Paisley, playing a...
of the Democratic Unionist Party. Hanna married Joan Fitt (a daughter of the politician GerryFitt) in 1975. They had two daughters. Vincent Hanna died...
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