John Haire, Baron Haire of Whiteabbey

Born in the region of Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland he was the son of John Haire and Mary Tedford.

Haire graduated from Queen's University, Belfast in 1931 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and a Diploma in Education (DipEd).

On 13 May 1965 he was made a life peer with the title Baron Haire of Whiteabbey, of Newtownabbey in the County of Antrim.

[1] Whiteabbey was one of seven villages that were merged to form Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland when the town was created on 1 April 1958.

While lecturing on comparative politics at Rutgers University, he suffered a stroke in a downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey bus station, later dying in a local hospital.