Cecil Harvey

Cecil Harvey (1918 – 1985 ) was a Northern Irish unionist politician and Church elder.

Background Harvey was educated at Garvey College in Belfast. He was also active in the Orange Order and the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), and was elected as a councillor. He became disillusioned with the UUP as it came to support the idea of power-sharing, and joined the rival Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party. then the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention.

In 1974, Harvey argued for the Orange Order to pay compensation to loyalists interned around the Ulster Workers' Council strike. Undeterred, Harvey became a founder member of the United Ulster Unionist Party, becoming the party chairman, and remaining loyal until its collapse in 1984. He then joined the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP),

Cecil's son, Harry, later became a DUP politician.