Herbert Heslip

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Herbert Heslip

| office = Member of
Banbridge District Council

| constituency = Banbridge Area B

| term_start = 30 May 1973

| term_end = 15 May 1985

| predecessor = Council established

| successor = District abolished

| office1 = Member of
the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
for South Down

| term_start1 = 1975

| term_end1 = 1976

| predecessor1 = Convention created

| successor1 = Convention dissolved

| office2 = Deputy speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly

| term_start2 = 1973

| term_end2 = 1974

| predecessor2 =

| successor2 =

| office3 = Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for South Down

| term_start3 = 28 June 1973

| term_end3 = 1974

| predecessor3 = Assembly established

| successor3 = Assembly abolished

| birth_date = 1913

| birth_place = Ballinaskeagh, Northern Ireland

| death_date = 1992

| party = Ulster Unionist Party

}}

Herbert Heslip (1913 in Ballinaskeagh, near Banbridge, County Down – 1992) was a Northern Irish politician with the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).

Political career

Heslip was a well-known figure in County Down Unionism, serving as a member of Down District Council from 1968 to 1973 and then of Banbridge District Council until 1985.W.D. Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968–1993, The Blackstaff Press, 1994, p. 183

Heslip was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly of 1973, serving as Deputy Speaker, and also sat in its successor the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention, in both cases for South Down. By conviction, however, he supported a return to the Parliament of Northern Ireland. He also served as Vice-President of the loyalist vigilante group Down Orange Welfare.

Following the death of Raymond McCullough in 1985 Heslip attempted to regain his seat in a by-election but was defeated by McCullough's daughter, Vivienne.[http://www.banbridgeleader.co.uk/news/local/local_authority_gains_youngest_councillor_1_1625654 Local authority gains youngest councillor], banbridgeleader.co.uk. Accessed 6 January 2023.