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|name         = Dermot Nesbitt
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|office = Minister of the Environment
|term_start = 20 February 2002
|term_end = 15 October 2002
|predecessor= [[Sam Foster (politician)|Sam Foster]]
|successor=[[Arlene Foster]]
|office2 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]]<br/>for [[South Down (Assembly constituency)|South Down]]
|assembly2    = Northern Ireland
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|term_start2  = 25 June 1998
|term_end2    = 7 March 2007
|predecessor2 = [[Good Friday Agreement|''Constituency created'']]
|successor2   = [[John McCallister]]
|birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1947|8|14|df=yes}}
|birth_place  = [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]
|death_date   = 
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|nationality  = British
|party        = [[Ulster Unionist Party]]
|spouse       = Oriel Nesbitt (m.1970-present) 
|children     = 2
|alma_mater   = [[Queen's University Belfast]]
|profession   = Economist, academic
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'''Dermot Nesbitt''' (born 14 August 1947) is a former [[Ulster Unionist Party]] (UUP) [[politician]] from [[Northern Ireland]] who was a [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] (MLA) for [[South Down (Assembly constituency)|South Down]] from 1998 to 2007.

Nesbitt was educated at [[Down High School]] and later studied [[economics]] at [[Queen's University Belfast]] and joined the [[Ulster Unionist Party]] (UUP). He was the [[election agent]] for [[Brian Faulkner]] from 1973–77, most of this period spent as a member of the [[Unionist Party of Northern Ireland]]. Nesbitt worked as a [[lecturer]] at Queen's and by 1981 he had rejoined the UUP, being elected to [[Down District Council]]. He held this seat until 1989.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

Nesbitt was elected to the [[Northern Ireland Forum]] for [[South Down (Assembly constituency)|South Down]] in 1996, and held this seat on the [[Northern Ireland Assembly]] at the [[1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election|1998]] and [[2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election|2003 elections]].{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

Nesbitt was a junior minister in the [[Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland]] from 1998 until 2002, when he took up the post of Minister of the Environment. He retired in 2007, and party colleague [[John McCallister]] retained a UUP seat in the [[South Down (Assembly constituency)|South Down]] constituency. At the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997]], [[2001 United Kingdom general election|2001]] and [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]]s, Nesbitt stood unsuccessfully for the Westminster seat of [[South Down (UK Parliament constituency)|South Down]]. 

He continued to work as a lecturer in finance at [[Queen's University Belfast|QUB]]{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} until his early 70s. 

In mid-morning on 7 December 1983, while chatting to UUP party and Queen's colleague [[Edgar Graham]] at the University Square side of the main campus library, Nesbitt witnessed Graham (aged 29) being shot dead by an IRA gunman.<ref>[http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/i/irish_republican_army/index.html?query=GRAHAM,%20EDGAR&field=per&match=exact PROTESTANT PARTY LEADER SLAIN IN ULSTER], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 8 December 1983.<br/>
[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/vo990520/text/90520w02.htm NORTHERN IRELAND, Terrorist Activities, reports of British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland's office, in answer to questions]: 16 April 1999. The government account reads:<blockquote>"Mr. Edgar Graham: At approximately 10.50 am on 7 December 1983, at University Square, Belfast, Mr. Graham was shot dead. The murder was claimed by the Irish Republican Army. RUC investigations resulted in one person being convicted of making property available and withholding information and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment suspended for 3 years. Another person, convicted of withholding information, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment suspended for 2 years. A number of other persons were arrested and interviewed in relation to this murder but released without charge."</blockquote></ref>

Nesbitt lives in [[Crossgar]] where his family have lived for several generations. He has been involved in many community and church activities in the area. 

==References==
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*[http://www.nics.gov.uk/biogs/dnesbitt.htm Biographies: Dermot Nesbitt]
*[http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,,-3873,00.html Aristotle: Dermot Nesbitt]

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