Paul Bew

Quick Facts

Full Name	Paul Bew
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 22, 1950(1950-01-22)
Age	74
Birthplace	Belfast
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Northern Ireland
Horoscope	Capricorn

Paul Bew Biography

Paul Bew is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 22, 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Bew is a native of Belfast. He was a student at Campbell College, Belfast before taking the BA as well as PhD from Pembroke College, Cambridge. The first book he wrote, Land and the National Question in Ireland 1858-1882 was a revisionist work which challenged nationalist historiography by exploring the struggle between tenants and landowners as well as the tension between small and large tenants. The third volume is a brief study on Charles Stewart Parnell and his family, challenged the arguments presented in an award-winning biography about Parnell written by F. S. L. Lyons however Lyons was among his fellow “doyens” of modern Irish history accepted his young historian’s arguments saying “Nothing Dr Bew writes is without interest.” Bew’s main argument was that Parnell was an essentially conservative person whose main goal was to maintain a post of leadership for the gentry of the Protestant faith in an eventual Home Rule Ireland.

Bew’s political beliefs have changed over time. In an interview in 2004 for The Guardian, he stated that “While my language was more obviously leftwing in the 1970s than today, that sympathy has always been there”. As a child, Bew participated in the People’s Democracy protests. Bew was a part of a group known as The British and Irish Communist Organisation that argued for that the Two Nations Theory of Northern Ireland. Bew had also been a part of the Workers Party of Ireland, which was then also known as official Sinn Fein.

In 2007, Oxford University Press published Bew’s Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789–2006, which forms part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe series. The book received positive reviews.

Lord Bew was appointed Chair Committee on Standards in Public Life, an advisory non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom Government, on 1 September 2013. His term is scheduled to end on 31 August 2018. In October 2018, he was appointed as Chairman of the House of Lords Appointments Commission for a five-year term starting on 1 November 2018.

Bew served as an historical adviser in The Bloody Sunday Inquiry between 1998 between 1998 and 2001.

Paul Bew Net Worth

Paul Bew is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paul Bew 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew (born 22 January 1950) is a British historian from Northern Ireland and a life peer. He has been employed for Queen’s University Belfast since 1979 which is where he currently teaches Irish Politics, which in which he’s been since 1991.

In 1991-93, he was the president of the Irish Association for Cultural, Economic and Social Relations.

Bew’s contributions to the Good Friday Agreement process were acknowledged with an appointment to the House of Lords as a life peer in February 2007. He was created Baron Bew, of Donegore in the County of Antrim on 26 March 2007, and sits as a crossbencher.

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Top Facts about Paul Bew

1. Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew, is a British historian from Northern Ireland.
2. He was born on 22 January 1950 in Belfast and was educated in Campbell College, a grammar school in Belfast.
3. He wrote a revisionist study called Land and the National Question in Ireland, 1858–82.
4. He wrote a biography of Charles Stewart Parnell challenging some of the arguments of the award-winning biography by F. S. L. Lyons.
5. In 2007, Oxford University Press published Bew’s Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789–2006.
6. He acted as a historical advisor to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry between 1998 and 2001.
7. He was involved in the project by Boston College to record interviews by former participants in the Irish “Troubles”.
8. Bew was a member of British and Irish Communist Organisation and Workers’ Party.
9. He served as President of The Irish Association for Cultural, Economic and Social Relations from 1991-1993.
10. He changed from a left-wing to unionist stance.
11. In 2019 he called for the British government to do more to champion the union.
12. He was created Baron Bew, of Donegore in the County of Antrim in 2007.
13. In 2013 he was Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
14. In 2018 he was appointed as Chairman of the House of Lords Appointments Commission.
15. He is married to Greta Jones, a history professor at the University of Ulster.