David Trimble, former first minister of Northern Ireland and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader, has died aged 77 following a short illness.
Before being made a life peer, he led the UUP from 1995 for a decade and was instrumental in Good Friday Agreement negotiations.
His efforts to help secure the peace deal that ended the worst of Northern Ireland’s Troubles won him and SDLP leader John Hume the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2006, he was given a peerage to sit in the House of Lords as Baron Trimble of Lisnagarvey. He was the first person to serve in the role of first minister for Northern Ireland.
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