Billy Spence (brother), Frankie Curry (nephew), Winston Churchill Rea (son-in-law)
Augustus Andrew Spence (28 June 1933[2] – 25 September 2011) was a leader of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and a leading loyalist politician in Northern Ireland. One of the first UVF members to be convicted of murder, Spence was a senior figure in the organisation for over a decade.
During his time in prison Spence renounced violence and helped to convince a number of fellow inmates that the future of the UVF lay in a more political approach. Spence joined the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), becoming a leading figure in the group. As a PUP representative he took a principal role in delivering the loyalist ceasefires of 1994.
^Ed Moloney, Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat?, Dublin: Poolbeg, 2008, p. 132
^Biographies of people prominent during 'the Troubles': S Archived 14 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). Retrieved 5 April 2011.
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leader, succeeding John McKeague. Rea met Elizabeth Spence, daughter of UVF leader GustySpence, who was imprisoned at the time. In April 1972, he travelled...
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