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Robert Simms was an
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He was the owner of a papermill in Ballyclare and ,with his brother William Simms, the proprietor of the Northern Star newspaper. He was one of the founders of the Society of United Irishmen in Belfast and the author of "Declaration and Resolutions of the Society of United Irishmen of Belfast".Robert Simms was a friend of the naturalist
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and his son,also Robert Simms, was one of the founders of the
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