Editing David Trimble (section)

==Personal life==
Trimble married his first wife, Heather McComb, in 1968. They did not have children, having had a [[stillbirth]] of twin sons.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/07/25/david-trimble-a-man-whose-willingness-to-change-course-helped-pave-the-way-for-peace/ | title=David Trimble obituary: A man whose willingness to change course helped pave the way for peace | newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] | access-date=2 August 2022 | archive-date=27 July 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727233023/https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/07/25/david-trimble-a-man-whose-willingness-to-change-course-helped-pave-the-way-for-peace/ | url-status=live }}</ref> In 1976 the couple divorced. Two years later he married a former student of his, Daphne Elizabeth (née Orr).<ref name="NYT obit">{{cite news|title=David Trimble, Peace Prize Winner in Ulster Strife, Dies at 77|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/world/europe/david-trimble-dead.html|first=Alan|last=Cowell|date=25 July 2022|access-date=25 July 2022|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|archive-date=25 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725204005/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/world/europe/david-trimble-dead.html|url-status=live}}</ref> They had two sons and two daughters (Richard, Victoria, Nicholas and Sarah).<ref name="NYT obit"/><ref name="google1"/> Richard Trimble is a maths teacher and head of the sixth form at Graveney School in Tooting, South West London. [[Daphne Trimble|Lady Trimble]] served as a member of the [[Equality Commission for Northern Ireland]] and later the [[Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission]],<ref name="Times obit">{{cite news|title=Good Friday agreement architect David Trimble dies aged 77|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/david-trimble-obituary-dmbgsbtcj|first1=Nadeem|last1=Badshah|first2=Steven|last2=Swinford|date=25 July 2022|access-date=25 July 2022|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London|archive-date=26 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726000215/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/good-friday-agreement-architect-david-trimble-dies-aged-77-dmbgsbtcj|url-status=live}}</ref> before standing unsuccessfully in the [[2010 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland|UK parliamentary election]] of May 2010 for the [[Conservatives and Unionists]].<ref name="BBC obit">{{cite news|title=Obituary: David Trimble, Northern Ireland's first first minister|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-25825573|date=25 July 2022|access-date=25 July 2022|work=BBC News|archive-date=25 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725184401/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-25825573|url-status=live}}</ref>

His son Nicholas was active within the Ulster Unionist Party and serving on the [[Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council]] at the time of his father's death.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cllr Hon. Nicholas Trimble|url=https://www.lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk/council/elected-members/Nicholas-Trimble|access-date=25 July 2022|publisher=Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council|archive-date=26 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726000218/https://www.lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk/council/elected-members/Nicholas-Trimble|url-status=live}}</ref> Nicholas Trimble was co-opted in 2016 to replace Alexander Redpath as a Councillor representing Downshire West on Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council.<ref>{{cite news|title=Constituency Notebook: Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council|url=https://www.irishnews.com/news/localelection2019/2019/04/29/news/constitunency-notebook-lisburn-and-castlereagh-city-council-1607650/|first=Simon|last=Doyle|date=29 April 2019|access-date=25 July 2022|newspaper=[[The Irish News]]|location=Belfast|archive-date=26 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726000217/https://www.irishnews.com/news/localelection2019/2019/04/29/news/constitunency-notebook-lisburn-and-castlereagh-city-council-1607650/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Trimble admitted in July 2019 that he was "forced" to change his position on [[same-sex marriage]] and partnerships after voting against them, because of his lesbian daughter Vicky, who married her girlfriend Rosalind Stephens in [[Same-sex marriage in Scotland|Scotland]] in 2017. He told peers in the House of Lords "I cannot change that, and I cannot now go around saying that I am opposed to it because I acquiesced to it. There we are."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/trimble-reveals-daughter-is-in-a-same-sex-marriage-38301501.html|title=Trimble reveals daughter is in a same-sex marriage|last1=Lester |first1=Nick |last2=Bell |first2=Jonathan|newspaper=Belfast Telegraph|date=11 July 2019|archive-date=13 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513165138/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/trimble-reveals-daughter-is-in-a-same-sex-marriage-38301501.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/daughter-of-former-northern-ireland-first-minister-trimble-reveals-his-happiness-with-same-sex-marriage-38310956.html|title=Daughter of former Northern Ireland first minister Trimble reveals his happiness with same-sex marriage|author=<!--not stated-->|newspaper=Belfast Telegraph|date = 14 July 2019|archive-date=16 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616204618/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/daughter-of-former-northern-ireland-first-minister-trimble-reveals-his-happiness-with-same-sex-marriage-38310956.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-49010807/it-was-accept-our-relationship-or-lose-a-daughter|title=It was accept our relationship or lose a daughter|work=BBC News Northern Ireland|date=16 July 2019|archive-date=21 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721013037/https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-49010807/it-was-accept-our-relationship-or-lose-a-daughter|url-status=live}}</ref> His nephew Andrew played professional rugby for Ireland.

Trimble died on 25 July 2022 after a brief illness. He was 77 years old.<ref name="Times obit"/><ref name="BBC obit"/>