The Christian Institute writes: ‘He was the minister of Trinity Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPC) in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, for the best part of four decades until his retirement in 2011. He had also served pastorates in Dervock and Portrush, Co. Antrim, and with a Greek-speaking church in Cyprus. He and his family were among the UK citizens evacuated from Cyprus at the time of the Turkish invasion.