I got home at the weekend for my birthday, and amongst the various pieces of mail that had come to my parents’ address for me was a document from their Member of Parliament, The Rt Hon. Ian R. K. Paisley, entitled 40 years at your service. I was amused then when later on in the day my father gave me a copy of the Cameron Report Disturbances in Northern Ireland. 

The Cameron Report was the report of the Commission appointed by the Governor of Northern Ireland (then The Lord Grey of Naunton)

“to hold an enquiry into and to report upon the course of events leading to, and the immediate causes and nature of the violence and civil disturbance in Northern Ireland on and since 5th October 1968; and to assess the composition, conduct and aims of those bodies involved in the current agitation and in any incidents arising out of it:”

from the Warrant of Appointment by the Governor of Northern Ireland,
Given at Government House, Hillsborough, 3rd March 1969. 

Not having been alive at the time of these disturbances I found it an interesting piece of history to read. The most amusing (to me) part of the Report was Appendix II:

Persons Refusing or Ignoring a Request to Provide Evidence to the Comission

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Rev. I. R. K. Paisley 

Disturbances in Northern Ireland
Cmd. 532, September 1969 

Among the powers granted to the Cameron Commission by the Governor were the powers to

“…call before you such persons as you shall judge likely to afford you any information upon the subject of this Commission; to call for such information in writing; and also to call for, have access to and examine all such books, documents, registers and records as may afford you the fullest information on the subject…

Governor’s Warrant

It seems that it is rather like father, like son with regard to the Paisleys (Rt Hon. I. R. K. Paisley M.P., M.L.A. and Ian Paisley, Junior, M.L.A.). For as his father refused to give evidence to the Cameron Enquiry, Ian, Jr, is refusing to give particular evidence to the Billy Wright Inquiry. Ian Paisley Jr appears to be still in breach of the High Court Order for him to hand over his evidence.