Few of them were affected by exclusion from the higher offices, fewer still by exclusion from the inner Bar; and Liberal Protestants would always be found ready to voice Catholic interests in Parliament if they owed their seats to Catholic votes.
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Little was the son of Rev . Dr . James Little, erstwhile MP for County Down, and educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, St . Andrew's College, Dublin and later at Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated MA and LL . B . He was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1938 and to the Inner Bar in 1963.