David Cook

David Cook is a former politician in Northern Ireland. Cook works as a solicitor, eventually becoming a senior partner at Sheldon and Stewart Solicitors. In 1970, Cook was a founder member of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI), while he was elected to the party's Central Executive in 1971. He was elected to Belfast City Council in 1973, a position he held until 1985. In 1978, he became the first non-unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast since partition (the pro-Home Rule Liberal William James Pirrie having held the post in the 1890s). He stood for APNI in Belfast South in the February 1974 general election, taking just under 10% of the vote. He was able to improve to 27% of the vote at the Belfast South by-election, 1982. Following...