Robert Corkey

Robert Corkey

Presbyterian minister, a professor of theology and a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.^[2]

Biography

He was born at Glendermott Parish,

Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ireland from 1945 to 1946.^[2]

He was elected to the

Deputy Speaker of the Senate from 1952 to 1953 and from 1957 to 1958. He died on 26 January 1966.^[2]

Academic offices
Preceded by Samuel Law Wilson	Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1917–51	Office abolished
Parliament of Northern Ireland
Preceded by John Campbell John Hanna Robb Robert James Johnstone Hugh Morrison	Howard Stevenson from 1938 William Lyle from 1942	Succeeded by Howard Stevenson William Lyle
Party political offices
Preceded by Sir Norman Stronge	Unionist Assistant Whip 1942–1943	Vacant Title next held by John Edgar Bailey
Political offices
Preceded by Sir Norman Stronge	Assistant Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance 1942–1943	Vacant Title next held by John Edgar Bailey
Preceded by John Hanna Robb	Minister of Education 1943–1944	Succeeded by Samuel Hall-Thompson
Presbyterian Church titles
Preceded by Andrew Gibson (1944)	Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1945	Succeeded by Thomas Byers (1946)