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About Anne Dickson
- Anne Letitia Dickson CBE (born 18 April 1928) is a former Northern Ireland Unionist politician.Born in London, she moved with her family to Northern Ireland at an early age and was educated at Holywood and Richmond Lodge School.
- After service as the Chair of the Northern Ireland Advisory Board of the Salvation Army she became actively involved in politics for the Ulster Unionist Party.
- Elected as chair of the Carrick Division Unionist Association she later became a member of the Newtownabbey Urban District Council; serving as Vice-Chair of the Council from 1967 to 1969.She was then elected as an Ulster Unionist politician for the Carrick constituency in the Parliament of Northern Ireland at Stormont as a supporter of the Prime Minister Terence O'Neill.
- After the dissolution of the Stormont Parliament, she was elected in the 1973 Assembly election for South Antrim as an Independent Unionist candidate having resigned from the UUP in 1972.
- After the Ulster Unionist party split in 1973/4 over the Sunningdale agreement she joined the newly formed Unionist Party of Northern Ireland (UPNI) along with other supporters of the former Northern Ireland prime minister Brian Faulkner.
- She retained her seat in South Antrim in the 1975 constitutional convention election.
- After the retirement of Brian Faulkner she became leader of the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland (UPNI) in 1976, becoming the first woman to lead a major political party in Northern Ireland. In 1979 she contested the Belfast North constituency in the Westminster election, polling 10% of the vote, the best performance by a UPNI candidate in Northern Ireland, however her intervention was sufficient to split the moderate Unionist vote resulting in the seat being gained by the DUP.
- The UPNI disbanded in 1981 after poor results in the local government elections that year and Dickson retired from active politics.
- Subsequently she was chair of the Northern Ireland Consumer Council from 1985 to 1990.
- She was appointed CBE in the 1990 Birthday Honours.
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