Chair of the House of Lords Appointments Commission
In office 25 October 2018 – 26 October 2023
Preceded by
The Lord Kakkar
Succeeded by
The Baroness Deech
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 March 2007 Life peerage
Personal details
Born
(1950-01-22) 22 January 1950 (age 74) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Nationality
British
Political party
None (crossbencher)
Spouse
Greta Jones
Children
John Bew
Education
Campbell College, Belfast
Alma mater
Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew (born 22 January 1950[1]),[2] is a British historian from Northern Ireland and a life peer. He has worked at Queen's University Belfast since 1979, and is currently Professor of Irish Politics, a position he has held since 1991.[2]
^"Birthdays". The Guardian. London: Guardian News & Media: 33. 22 January 2013.
^ abRichards, Huw (9 March 2004). "Paul Bew: Belfast's history man". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 1 April 2007. Retrieved 6 March 2008.
Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew (born 22 January 1950), is a British historian from Northern Ireland and a life peer. He has worked at Queen's University...
at Burntollet irreparably damaged the credibility of the RUC. Professor PaulBew, an academic at Queen's University Belfast who as a student had participated...
into the Portuguese dictatorship that existed under Salazar at the time. PaulBew has also argued against the term fascist being applied to the Blueshirts...
for Carson, and today it exists solely to perform this ceremonial role. PaulBew, Peter Gibbon and Henry Patterson, Northern Ireland: 1921 / 2001 Political...
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as "anti-national propaganda"; according to PaulBew, this was not out of disbelief but rather because the Holocaust undermined...
Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, 1999. PaulBew and Gordon Gillespie, Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles, 1968–1999...
tenants were participating in anti-landlord agitation. Irish historian PaulBew notes that five of the largest landlords in Connacht also refused to contribute...
69. Bew 2011. Lyons 1973, p. 615. O'Brien 1898, p. 357. Taylor 1980, p. 91. Lyons 1973, pp. 459–461, 604. Gifford & Seidman 1989, p. 172. Bew, Paul (1980)...
College Cork, April 2003. Archived 19 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine PaulBew, Ellen Hazelkorn and Henry Patterson, The Dynamics of Irish Politics (London:...
Barton, The Government of Northern Ireland, 1920–1923 (Athol Books, 1980) PaulBew, Peter Gibbon and Henry Patterson The State in Northern Ireland, 1921–72:...
Churchill and Ireland. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. p. 7. PaulBew (2016). Churchill and Ireland. Oxford University Press. pp. 55–56. ISBN 9780191071492...
city. The New York Times called it "an extraordinary apology". Historian PaulBew, writing in The Daily Telegraph, summed up the length of the inquiry as...
953 978-0198221142 Richard J. Crampton Bulgaria 2007 528 978-0199541584 PaulBew Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1789–2006 2007 625 978-0198205555 Named...
academic 1949 – Steve Perry, American singer-songwriter and producer 1950 – PaulBew, Northern Irish historian and academic 1950 – Frank Schade, American basketball...
Retrieved 18 February 2022. Keogh (1998), pp. 12–14 Keogh (1998), pp. 26–30 PaulBew, Ireland: The Politics of enmity 1789–2006, Oxford University Press, 2007...
hand, he never fully renounced violence and, according to Irish historian PaulBew, was involved in smuggling arms for the IRB between his first release from...
chaplain, psychiatrist, analytical psychologist, friend of Carl Jung, author PaulBew, scholar and life peer Andrew Bree, swimmer Thomas Watters Brown, judge...
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