Attended Ballymena Model School and South Wales Bible College.
Has a son who is also called Ian (Ian Paisley Jr.), who is also a member
of the Democratic Unionist Party.
Paisley's use of the title 'Dr.' derives from an honorary Doctor of
Divinity degree awarded by Bob Jones University in Greenville, South
Carolina.
Is a privy councillor and leader of the largest party in the Northern
Ireland Assembly. Thus his title is The Revd and Rt Hon. Dr. Ian
Richard Kyle Paisley MP MLA.
Jailed in March 1969 for organising an illegal counter-demonstration
against a civil rights march in Armagh. He was released during a
general amnesty for people convicted of political offences.
On the 8th of May 2007, he became First Minister of Northern Ireland.
He is the founder of the fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster (1951).
He co-founded the Democratic Unionist Party in 1971.