Ulster Liberal Party. 1969 The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland is formed. 1985 The Ulster Liberal Party fields its last candidate in a Northern Ireland election and subsequently endorses Alliance candidates instead. 1988 A small branch of the Liberal Democrats is formed in Northern Ireland. Like the Ulster Liberal Party, it supports Alliance Party candidates in elections. 2010The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland win their first seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the 2010 General Election. Party leader Naomi Long becomes the MP for Belfast East. 2015 The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland lose their 1 seat in the 2015 General Election. 2019 The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland win 1 seat in the 2019 General Election.: Liberal leaders Liberal thinkers In the Contributions to liberal theory the following British thinkers are included: Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) John Locke (1632–1704) John Trenchard (1662–1723) Thomas Gordon (c. 1692–1750) David Hume (1711–1776) Richard Price (1723–1791) Adam Smith (1723–1790) Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) Thomas Paine (1737–1809) Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) David Ricardo (1772–1823) James Mill (1773–1836) Richard Cobden (1804–1865) James Wilson (1805–1860) John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) Thomas Hill Green (1836–1882) John A. Hobson (1858–1940) Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864–1929) William Beveridge (1879–1963) John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) Karl Raimund Popper (1902–1994) John Hicks (1904–1989) Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009) David Laws (born 1965) See also Civil liberties in the United Kingdom History of the United Kingdom Politics of the United Kingdom List of political parties in the United Kingdom History of socialism in Great Britain References Further reading Adelman, Paul/ The Decline of the Liberal Party, 1910–1931 (1995) excerpt Bentley, Michael The Climax of Liberal Politics: British Liberalism in Theory and Practice, 1868-1918 (1987). Biagini, Eugenio F. Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform. Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone (1992) Brack, Duncan, Robert Ingham, and Tony Little, eds. British Liberal Leaders (Biteback Publishing, 2015). Cole, Matt. "The political starfish: west Yorkshire Liberalism in the twentieth century." Contemporary British History 25.01 (2011): 175-188. Collins, Jeffrey R. "Review Essay: The Lost Historiography of Liberalism." Review of Politics 81.4 (2019): 673-688. online Cregier, Don M. "The Murder of the British Liberal Party," The History Teacher 3#4 (May, 1970), pp. 27–36 online edition Dangerfield, George. The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935) online free de Ruggiero, Guido. The History of European Liberalism (Oxford UP, 1927) online Douglas, Roy. The Liberals: The