Charles Kinahan was a politician

Politician

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 in Northern Ireland

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Kinahan studied at Stowe School

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. He was a founder member of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

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 and was a director of Bass

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 Ireland. He stood unsuccessfully for the party in South Antrim

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 at the February and October 1974 UK general elections, but was elected to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention

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 from South Antrim

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Kinahan was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant

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 of County Antrim

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, the Belfast Harbour Commissioners, and as a member of the Senate of the Queen's University of Belfast

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. His last political contest was South Antrim at the 1979 UK general election.

In 1980, Kinahan was appointed to the National Heritage Memorial Fund

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