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Obituary: Dr Robert Simpson
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The Independent - London
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April 29, 1997
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Robert Simpson was a true son of Ballymena, the Co Antrim town
where he spent his life as general practitioner and which he
represented for 20 years in the Stormont Parliament. He spoke with
the Scots accent typical of the area and exemplified the qualities
of that hardy race: openness, honesty, a bluntness of speech
relieved and lightened by a lovely self-deprecating humour.
As the eldest son of a small farmer be would have inherited 50
fertile acres but had no inclination for the back-breaking slog,
though he was deeply immersed in the ways of the countryside.
He was educated at the local academy and at Queen's University,
Belfast, where he qualified in 1946, setting up his plate in his ...