On 18 June 2004, Haughey was created a
life peer as
Baron Ballyedmond,
of Mourne in the County of Down and sat in the British
House of Lords on behalf of the
Ulster Unionist Party, before switching to the
Conservative Party. He donated £50,000 to the Conservative Party in 2010. He was previously appointed to the
Irish Senate in 1994, and was the third politician in nearly 80 years to have sat in both countries' upper houses, after
the Earl of Longford in the 1940s and
the Earl of Iveagh in the 1970s. He was appointed an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the
1986 New Year Honours, and in 2008 was awarded an honorary Fellowship of the
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. On 1 July 2008 Haughey was made an Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) by the
University of Ulster in recognition of his contribution to the development of the international pharmaceutical industry. Tax-deductible donations have been made by Norbrook to the UU. The same year, he was also made an Honorary
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (HonFRSC), "in recognition of his unparalleled contribution to the chemical sciences". Haughey served as an
Honorary Consul to the
Republic of Chile. Haughey was the Mid Ulster Branch patron of the National Malaya and Borneo Veterans Association. ==Family==