Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond
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The Lord Ballyedmond OBE, FRCVS |
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| Member of the House of Lords |
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In office 18 June 2004 – 13 March 2014 |
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In office 13 December 1994 – 26 June 2002 |
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| Constituency | Nominated by the Taoiseach |
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Edward Enda Haughey 5 January 1944 Kilcurry, County Louth, Ireland |
| Died | 13 March 2014 (aged 70) Gillingham, Norfolk, England |
| Cause of death | Helicopter crash |
| Nationality | Irish-British |
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Fianna Fáil (Ireland) Conservative (Britain) Ulster Unionist Party (Northern Ireland) |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Young |
| Children | 3 |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, politician, activist |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Edward Enda "Eddie" Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, OBE, FRCVS, (5 January 1944 – 13 March 2014) was an Irish-British entrepreneur and politician.
With an estimated personal wealth of €780 million (£650 million/USD$1,078 million), he was the second-richest person in Northern Ireland, ninth-richest in Ireland 250 member list and was joint 132nd-richest person in the United Kingdom.
Edward Haughey was born in Kilcurry, north of Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland in 1944 and educated by the Christian Brothers in Dundalk.
Having emigrated to the United States and begun a career in the pharmaceutical industry Edward Haughey returned to Northern Ireland starting Norbrook Group as a pioneer in contract manufacture of products for multinationals. Instead of merely being content to process products from other companies Norbrook developed proprietary lines and international manufacturing and distribution.
Properties owned by Haughey include Ballyedmond Castle in Rostrevor, Corby Castle in Cumbria, Gillingham Hall, Norfolk, Belgrave Square #9, London (a 6-storey townhouse purchased in 2006 for about £12m, restored during the following three years) and a Georgian house on Dublin's Fitzwilliam Square.
On 18 June 2004, Haughey was created a life peer as Baron Ballyedmond, of Mourne in the County of Down and sat in the British House of Lords on behalf of the Ulster Unionist Party, before switching to the Conservative Party. He donated £50,000 to the Conservative Party in 2010. He was previously named to the Irish Senate in 1994, and was the third politician in nearly 80 years to have sat in both countries' upper houses, after the Earl of Longford in the 1940s and the Earl of Iveagh in the 1970s.
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