- British Government
Northern Ireland Downing Street Joint Declaration (1993)
This project models the series of formal and informal negotiations which led to the publication, in December 1993, of a declaration issued jointly by the British and Irish Governments. The Joint Declaration was a critical policy document which paved the way for a ceasefire and the entry of Sinn Féin into formal talks. It also laid out a shared set of principles – including, crucially, self-determination for the people of Ireland subject to the consent of the people of Northern Ireland – which would come to underpin the Belfast Good Friday Agreement and provide a framework for its ratification.
British Government
This is one of the 8 delegations in the convention, accounting for 62 of 112 people who took part.
Members (62):
| Name | Visualize | Details | Delegations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Allan | Visualize | Sir Alexander Claud Stuart Allan KCB. Born 9 February 1951. From 1992 to August 1997 Allan was the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Michael Ancram | Visualize | Baron Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr. Born 7 July 1945. Appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office, 1993. Promoted to Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office, 1994. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Graham Archer | Visualize | Graham Robertson Archer; CMG 1997. Born 4 July 1939. Civil Servant in the Foreign Office from 1990, Republic of Ireland Department for at least 1992. | British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) , British Government (This negotiation) |
| Kenneth Baker | Visualize | Baron Kenneth Wilfred Baker; CH, PC. Born 3 November 1934. Conservative MP, 1968-97. Education Secretary, 1986-89. Home Secretary, 1990-92. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Tony Beeton | Visualize | Anthony (Tony) Clifford Beeton. Born 3 February 1952; died 5 October 1999. Joined the Northern Ireland Office as a civil servant in 1991. Became advisor to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam. Head of the Human Rights division at the Northern Ireland Office. During the 1980s, Beeton was the Labour Party broadcast officer. | British Government (This negotiation) , British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) |
| Peter Bell | Visualize | Peter N. Bell. Born 28 March 1945. Civil Servant at the Northern Ireland Office. | British Government (This negotiation) , British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) |
| David Blatherwick | Visualize | David Elliot Spiby Blatherwick, KCMG 1997 (CMG 1990) OBE 1973. Born 13 July 1941. First Secretary, Dublin 1970-73. Head, Political Affairs Department, Northern Ireland Office (Belfast) 1981-83. Ambassador to Ireland, 1991–1995. | British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) , British Government (This negotiation) |
| John Blelloch | Visualize | Sir John Niall Henderson Blelloch KCB. Born 24 October 1930. Deputy Secretary in the Northern Ireland Office from 1980 to 1982. Permanent Under Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office from 1988 to 1990. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Roger Bootle-Wilbraham | Visualize | Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale. Born 2 April 1945. Assigned to the Northern Ireland Office as a deputy minister from 1989 to November 1990. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Peter Brooke | Visualize | Peter Leonard Brooke, CH 1992; PC 1998; Baron (Life Peer) of Sutton Mandeville, 2001. Born 3 March 1934. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 24 July 1989–10 April 1992. Chairman of House of Commons Select Committee on Northern Ireland, 1997–2001. Member of British-Irish Parliamentary Body, 1997-2007. | British Government (This negotiation) , British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) |
| David Brooker | Visualize | David Brooker joined the civil service and the Northern Ireland Office in 1975. Since then he worked as Head of HR at the Northern Ireland Office, Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Director of Communications at the Northern Ireland Office. | Talks Secretariat (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) , British Government (This negotiation) |
| Ian Burns | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Robin Butler | Visualize | Baron Frederick Edward Robin Butler; KG 2003; GCB 1992; KCB 1988; CVO 1986. Born 3 January 1938. Joined HM Treasury, 1961; Private Sec. to Financial Sec. to Treasury, 1964–65; Sec., Budget Cttee, 1965–69; seconded to Cabinet Office as Mem., Central Policy Rev. Staff, 1971–72; Private Secretary: to Rt Hon. Edward Heath, 1972–74; to Rt Hon. Harold Wilson, 1974–75; returned to HM Treasury as Asst Sec. i/c Gen. Expenditure Intell. Div., 1975; Under Sec., Gen. Expenditure Policy Gp, 1977–80; Prin. Establishments Officer, 1980–82; Principal Private Sec. to Prime Minister, 1982–85; Second Perm. Sec., Public Expenditure, HM Treasury, 1985–87. Mem., Royal Commn on H of L reform, 1999; Chm., Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2004. Non-executive Director: HSBC Hldgs, 1998–2008; ICI plc, 1998–2008. Ind. Chm., Kings Health Partners, 2009–14. Gov., Harrow Sch., 1975–91 (Chm. of Govs, 1988–91); Chm. Govs, Dulwich Coll., 1997–2003. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Mr Caine | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| John Chilcot | Visualize | Sir John Anthony Chilcot, GCB 1998; KCB 1994; CB 1990; PC 2004. Born 22 April 1939; died 3 October 2021. Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office 1990–1997. In 2009, Chilcot was appointed chairman of the Iraq Inquiry. | British Government (This negotiation) , British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) |
| NIO Civil Servants | Visualize | We have created this delegate to attach to source material which is attributed to the Northern Ireland Office where we do not know which civil servants in particular produced it. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Ken Clarke | Visualize | Baron Kenneth (Ken) Clarke; CH, PC, KC. Born 2 July 1940. Conservative MP. for Rushcliffe, 1970-2019; Secretary of State for Health, 1988-90; Secretary of State for Education, 1990-92; Home Secretary, 1992-93; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1993-1997. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Mrs Collins | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| David Cooke | Visualize | David Arthur Lawrence Cooke. Born 11 March 1956. Private secretary to Sir Patrick Mayhew, MP, 1981–82. Head of Division in the Northern Ireland Office, 1990-1993. Associate Political Director of the Northern Ireland Office, 2002–04. | British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) , British Government (This negotiation) |
| Jim Daniell | Visualize | Jim Daniell. Joined the Northern Ireland Office in the year after direct rule had been introduced in 1972. Principal Private Secretary to Northern Ireland secretaries Douglas Hurd and Tom King during the 1980s. Director of Criminal Justice in the Northern Ireland Office from 1994 to 2000. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Timothy Daunt | Visualize | Sir Timothy Daunt KCMG. Born 11 October 1935. After completing national service, he joined the diplomatic service. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| John Deverell | Visualize | John Deverell. Former head of MI5 in Northern Ireland. Killed in the Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash in 1994. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| John A Dew | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Marcus Dodds | Visualize | Marcus Dodds. Born 20 October 1944; died 5 June 1995. Civil servant at the Northern Ireland Office (and the first Northern Irish civil servant to work there in London) 1975–early 1980s. Civil servant at the Department of Education in Belfast, early 1980s–1989. Deputy Joint Secretary at the Anglo-Irish secretariat at Maryfield, 1989–1993. Assistant Secretary, Economic and Social Division of the Northern Ireland Office, 1993–1995. | British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) , British Government (This negotiation) |
| David Fell | Visualize | David Fell, KCB 1995 (CB 1990). Born 20 Jan 1943. Civil Servant at the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture, 1969–72. Civil Servant (Under Secretary from 1981) at the Northern Ireland Department of Commerce, 1972–82. Under Secretary at the Northern Ireland Department of Economic Development, 1982. Deputy Chief Executive of the Industrial Development Bureau for Northern Ireland, 1982–84. Permanent Secretary at the Northern Ireland Department of Economic Development, 1984–91. Head of Northern Ireland Civil Service, and Second Permanent Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office, 1991–97. | British Government (This negotiation) , British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) |
| William Fittall | Visualize | William Robert Fittall; Kt 2016. Born 26 July 1953; died 10 March 2022. Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1992–3. Associate Political Director of the Northern Ireland Office, 2000–2002. | British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) , British Government (This negotiation) |
| Tristan Garel-Jones | Visualize | Baron William Armand Thomas (Tristan) Garel-Jones; PC. Born 28 February 1941; died 23 March 2020. Conservative MP for Watford, 1979-97. Minister of State for Europe 14 July 1990 – 27 May 1993 | British Government (This negotiation) |
| David Gillmore | Visualize | David Howe Gillmore, Baron Gillmore of Thamesfield, GCMG. Born 16 August 1934. Appointed Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office in 1991. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Christopher Glyn-Jones | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Richard Gozney | Visualize | Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary 1989-1993. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Michael Howard | Visualize | Conservative M.P. for Folkstone and Hythe, 1983-2010; Home Secretary, 1993-97; Leader of the Conservative Party, 2003-05. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Douglas Hurd | Visualize | Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC. Born 8 March 1930. From 1984 to 1985 Hurd was the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Hurd was Home Secretary from 1985 to 1989, and Foreign Secretary from 1989 to 1995. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Tom King | Visualize | Thomas Jeremy King, Baron King of Bridgwater. Born 13 June 1933. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 1985 to 1989. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| David Kyle | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Stephen Leach | Visualize | Stephen James Leach; CB 2007. Born 12 February 1951. First joined Northern Ireland Office in 1975 until 1984. Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1988-90. Northern Ireland Office [responsibilities in policing, security and personnel policy and political development, 1991-96. Associate Political Director, then Associate Policing and Security Director, 1996-2000. Director of Criminal Justice, Northern Ireland Office, and Chairman, Criminal Justice Board, 2000-09. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Bryony Lodge | Visualize | Civil Servant in the Talks Planning Unit for at least 1992. | Talks Secretariat (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) , British Government (This negotiation) |
| Nicholas Lyell | Visualize | Nicholas Walter Lyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate, PC, QC (6 December 1938 – 30 August 2010). Conservative politician. Attorney General for England and Wales, and for Northern Ireland, from 10 April 1992 to 2 May 1997. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Roderic Lyne | Visualize | Roderic Michael John Lyne; KBE 1999; CMG 1992; PC 2009. Born 31 March 1948. FCO 1970; Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, 1993–96 (on secondment). [Adapted from: https://doi-org.ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U25179] | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Chris Maccabe | Visualize | Christopher George Maccabe; CB 2004. Born 17 December 1946. Researcher in the Northern Ireland Cabinet Office, 1971–73. Researcher in the Northern Ireland Office, 1972–73. Assistant Private Secretary to the Chief Minister, Northern Ireland Power Sharing Executive, 1973–74. Private Secretary to the Minister of State for the Northern Ireland Office, 1974–77. Civil Servant in the Northern Ireland Office, 1997–80. Seconded as Special Assistant to RUC Chief Constable, 1980–84. Northern Ireland Office, 1984–88. Director of Regimes, Northern Ireland Prison Service, 1988–92. Head of the Political Affairs Division in the Northern Ireland Office, 1992–2000. British Joint Secretary of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference and Political Director of the Northern Ireland Office, 2000–2008. | British Government (This negotiation) , British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) |
| John Major | Visualize | Sir John Major; KG 2005; CH 1999; PC 1987. Born 29 March 1943. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party, 1990–97. | British Government (This negotiation) , British Government (Northern Ireland International Body on Arms Decommissioning 1995-1996) , British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) |
| Jonathan Margetts | Visualize | Member of the Northern Ireland Office. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Brian Mawhinney | Visualize | Brian Stanley Mawhinney; Kt 1997; PC 1994; Baron (Life Peer) of Peterborough 2005. Born 26 July 1940; died 9 November 2019. Parliamentary Private Secretary to Ministers in HM Treasury, Employment and Northern Ireland, 1982–86. Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1986–90. Minister of State for the Northern Ireland Office, 1990–92. | British Government (This negotiation) , British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) |
| Peter May | Visualize | Appointed Private Secretary to Permanent Under Secretary John Chilcot in 1990. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Patrick Mayhew | Visualize | Baron Patrick (Paddy) Barnabas Burke Mayhew; Kt 1983; PC 1986; QC 1972; DL; Baron (Life Peer) of Kilndown 1997. Born 11 September 1929; died 25 June 2016. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1992–97. Mayhew was a Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells from 1974 until standing down at the 1997 general election. | British Government (This negotiation) , Secretary of State (Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue) , British Government (Northern Ireland International Body on Arms Decommissioning 1995-1996) , British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) , Northern Ireland Office (Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue) |
| John McConnell | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| David McIlroy | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Danny McNeill | Visualize | Danny McNeill. From 1992 to 1994 McNeill was a counsellor in the Northern Ireland Bureau in Washington DC. Afterwards he spent many years as Acting Director at the Northern Ireland Bureau in Washington DC. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| R. O. Miles | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| A T O'Donnell | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Anthony Pawson | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Christopher Prentice | Visualize | Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, 1990–1993. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Mr S Quinn | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| British Government Representative | Visualize | Statements, decisions and papers attributed to the British Government delegation. | British Government (This negotiation) , British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) |
| Stephen Rickard | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Malcolm Rifkind | Visualize | Conservative M.P. for Edinburgh Pentlands, 1974-97; Secretary of State for Scotland, 1986-90; Secretary of State for Transport, 1990-92; Secretary of State for Defence, 1992-95, Foreign Secretary, 1995-97. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| (Robert) John Sawers | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| A W Stephens | Visualize | None | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Jonathan Stephens | Visualize | Sir Jonathan Stephens; KCB. Born 8 February 1960. Joined the Civil Service in the Northern Ireland Office, 1983. Held a variety of posts within the Northern Ireland Office, 1992-2001 including Associate Political Director of the Northern Ireland Office. Permanent Secretary at the Northern Ireland Office 2014-20. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Quentin Thomas | Visualize | Sir Quentin Jeremy Thomas; Kt 1999; CB 1994. Born 1 August 1944. Under-Secretary in the Northern Ireland Office, 1988–91. Departmental Secretary in, then Political Director of, the Northern Ireland Office, 1991–98. | British Government (This negotiation) , British Government (Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992) |
| Stephen Wall | Visualize | Sir Stephen Wall; GCMG; LVO. Born January 1947. Joined Diplomatic Service, 1968. Assistant Head, and later Head, of the Foreign Office's European Community Department, 1983-88. Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, 1988-91. Private Secretary to John Major, responsible for foreign policy and defence issues, 1991-1993. Ambassador to Portugal, 1993-95. European adviser to Tony Blair, 2000-04. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| David Watkins | Visualize | David Watkins. Joined the civil service in 1972. He served as the Principal Private Secretary to the former Northern Ireland Secretary Tom King. In July 1998 he became the Senior Director of Policing and Security at the Northern Ireland Office. | British Government (This negotiation) |
| Martin Williams | Visualize | Martin John Williams; CVO, OBE. Born 3 November 1941. Career diplomat of the British Foreign Office having joined the Foreign Office in 1963. During 1993 to 1995 he worked in the Northern Ireland Office. | British Government (This negotiation) |