William Samuel Fyffe
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = William Samuel Fyffe
| office = Member of Parliament
for North Tyrone
| term_start = 1969
| term_end = 1973
| predecessor =Thomas Lyons
| successor = Parliament abolished
|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1914|09|7}}
|birth_place = Strabane, Northern Ireland
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1989|04|15|1914|09|7}}
}}
William Samuel Fyffe (7 September 1914 – 15 April 1989)[http://www.kabristan.org.uk/county-tyrone/strabane-cemeteries-f.html Transcription of William Fyffe's gravestone] was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
Born on Gourlieville Terrace in Strabane, Fyffe was the son of Wilson Fyffe, a Solicitors Clerk, and Margaret Cochrane.[https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1914/01403/1577023.pdf William Samuel Fyffe's Birth Certificate from 1914] Fyffe worked as a journalist and became active in the Ulster Unionist Party.Sydney Elliot and William D. Flackes, Northern Ireland: a political directory, 1968-1999, p.264 He was the Chairman of the North West Cricket Union,[http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/biographies.html Northern Ireland Parliamentary Elections Results: Biographies] and was known for his strident opposition to civil rights marches.
Fyffe was narrowly elected in North Tyrone at the 1969 Northern Ireland general election, serving until the Parliament was prorogued in 1972.
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Category:Journalists from Northern Ireland
Category:Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1969–1973
Category:Ulster Unionist Party members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland
Category:Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for County Tyrone constituencies
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