[1] Minford's father died in 1950, and Nat was selected to contest the resulting by-election in Antrim for the UUP.
At the end of an Orange Institution meeting during the 1951 general election, the chair gave the customary declaration "God Save the King!".
[5] During the 1960s, Minford attended a Catholic church service on the occasion of the opening of a secondary school in Andersonstown.
Minford received a threat from the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1966, and as a result, the Stormont Committee on Privilege was set up.
The following year he became the Ministry's Senior Parliamentary Secretary, and in 1969 he became its Minister of State, also joining the Privy Council of Northern Ireland.