* Reg Empey MLA: " Northern Ireland has today lost a unique, charismatic and uncharacteristically spin-free politician.

Many in Vanguard found this anathema, including the party's deputy leader Ernest Baird, Mid Ulster MP John Dunlop and East Belfast Convention member ( and future Ulster Unionist Party leader ) Reg Empey.

On 21 September 2010 it was revealed unionist politicians ( Peter Robinson and Reg Empey ), had written to the Taoiseach objecting to the transaction.

Reginald Norman Morgan Empey, Baron Empey of Shandon, OBE, ( born 26 October 1947 ) – known as Sir Reg Empey prior to 2011 – is the current Chairman and a former Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, and a former member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for East Belfast.

Reg Empey and Robert John White | John White at the Ulster Unionist Party Executive Committee during the Leader's address.

In 1999, Reg Empey was created a knight bachelor by Her Majesty The Queen.

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Following his resignation, the UUP's Executive Committee charged Sir Reg Empey, Lady Hermon and Lord Rogan with the interim leadership of the Party.

After two rounds of voting the election was won by Sir Reg Empey.

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In the interim it places the running of the party in the joint hands of Party President Lord Rogan, MLA Sir Reg Empey and the party's sole MP Syvlia Hermon.

* 9 June 2005-Sir Reg Empey formally launches a bid for the leadership, with the backing of more than half the party's MLAs and its sole MEP Jim Nicholson.

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In 1995, he was selected by the Ulster Unionists to contest the North Down by-election over the favourite for the nomination, Sir Reg Empey, but was beaten in the election by Robert McCartney.

Following the resignation of David Trimble as UUP leader in 2005 he stood as a candidate in the contest to succeed him and was narrowly beaten by Sir Reg Empey.

Ulster Unionist Party leader Sir Reg Empey also criticised the inquiry, questioning the benefit of reliving the " darkest years " of Northern Ireland's history after 40 years, and also contrasting the £ 190m Saville Inquiry into 13 deaths with the absence of any inquiries into the deaths of 3, 600 people at the hands of paramilitary groups during the same period.

Born in West Belfast on 26 October 1868, Reg Empey's family were retailers, and his uncle was a Stormont Ulster Unionist MP.

* Sir Reg Empey-Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party 2005-2010

In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).

Significant figures in the Australia Party were Senator Reg Turnbull ( elected as an independent but Australia Party leader from 1969 – 1970 ), and journalist Alan Fitzgerald, then a member of the elected Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council.

Later a more significant group formed around Reg Birch, an engineering union official, established the Communist Party of Britain ( Marxist-Leninist ).

Reg Alcock and several others inside the Liberal Party had opposed the timing of the vote, and the poor results prompted Paul Martin's supporters to organize against Chrétien.

The Communist Party of Britain ( Marxist-Leninist ) was established in 1968 by a leading engineering union official, Reg Birch, who had been a prominent member of the CPGB and at that time a supporter of the Beijing line in the Sino-Soviet dispute.

The current Searchlight magazine was preceded in the early 1960s by a magazine of the same name, edited by left-wing Labour Party Members of Parliament Reg Freeson and Joan Lestor with Gerry Gable as " research director ".

However, the record for crossing the floor in the Australian Parliament goes to Tasmanian Senator Sir Reg Wright, who voted against his own party ( the Liberal Party of Australia ) on 150 occasions.

Between 1948 – 50, he was Liberal agent in Stockport but following the poor general election results experienced by the Liberal Party in 1950 and 1951, he was advised by the losing Liberal candidate for Stockport, Reg Hewitt, to join the Labour Party.

The final official count however gave the seat to the incumbent, Reg Boorman of the Labour Party, by a margin of seven votes, although a Judicial Recount reduced this to only one vote.

In 1976, with secret funding from the Freedom Association, he posed as a Labour Party moderate and briefly won control of Newham North East Constituency Labour Party, in an eventually unsuccessful attempt to reverse the deselection of the local MP, Reg Prentice.

The small party was formed in 1968 by Reg Birch as a split from the Communist Party of Great Britain, siding with the Communist Party of China.

The official count ( completed two weeks later ) reversed the election night provisional count and the constituency was won by the incumbent Labour Party MP, Reg Boorman by seven votes.

Reg Gervais was leader of the Ontario Social Credit Party in 1981 and announced prior to the March 1981 provincial election that he planned to run in Nickel Belt, but did not follow through.

While Heffer could work with Barbara Castle, she was moved in a reshuffle in 1972 and replaced by Reg Prentice who was already beginning the move across the political spectrum which would see him join the Conservative Party in 1977.

The world's top 10 association croquet players as of May 2012 are Reg Bamford ( South Africa ), Robert Fulford ( England ), Robert Fletcher ( Australia ), David Maugham ( England ), Toby Garrison ( New Zealand ), Aaron Westerby ( New Zealand ), Paddy Chapman ( New Zealand ), Jamie Burch ( England ), Greg Bryant ( New Zealand ) and Ben Rothman ( USA ).

New characters were introduced, such as Terry Duckworth ( Nigel Pivaro ), Curly Watts ( Kevin Kennedy ), Martin Platt ( Sean Wilson ), Reg Holdsworth ( Ken Morley ) and the McDonald family ; one of whom, Simon Gregson, started on the show as Steve McDonald a week after his 15th birthday, and has been in the programme ever since.

Other recurring archetypes include the war veteran ( Albert Tatlock, Percy Sugden ), the bumbling retail manager ( Leonard Swindley, Reg Holdsworth, Norris Cole ), and the perennial losers ( Stan and Hilda Ogden, Jack and Vera Duckworth, and Les Battersby-Brown ).

A more recent Australian invention is the term " reginalds " to describe underpants ( referred to as " undies " in Australian slang ), from " Reg Grundies " after Reg Grundy, the Australian media tycoon.

* Dominique ( Concetta Tomei ), co-proprietor of Big Time TV along with Blank Reg, managing the business aspects of running the station.

By March 1947, the NCS had 112 members, including Bud Fisher ( Mutt and Jeff ), Don Flowers ( Glamor Girls ), Bob Kane ( Batman ), Fred Lasswell ( Barney Google and Snuffy Smith ), George Lichty ( Grin and Bear It ), Zack Mosley ( The Adventures of Smilin ' Jack ), Alex Raymond ( Rip Kirby ), Cliff Sterrett ( Polly and Her Pals ) and Chic Young ( Blondie ), plus editorial cartoonists Reg Manning and Fred O. Seibel and sports cartoonist Willard Mullin.

* Reg ( Professor Urban Chronotis, the Regius Professor of Chronology ), Richard's old college tutor, a fellow of St. Cedd's College, Cambridge with no apparent duties, who is " on the older side of completely indeterminate ".