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Frank Millar (politician, born 1925)

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Frank Millar
Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office
1992–1993
In office
1981–1982
Member of
Belfast City Council
In office
15 May 1985 – 19 May 1993
Preceded byDistrict created
Succeeded byDavid Browne
ConstituencyCastle
In office
30 May 1973 – 15 May 1985
Preceded byDistrict created
Succeeded byDistrict abolished
ConstituencyBelfast Area H
In office
1972 – 30 May 1973
Succeeded byDistrict abolished
ConstituencyBelfast Dock
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for North Belfast
In office
20 October 1982 – 1986
In office
1973–1974
Member of the Constitutional Convention
for North Belfast
In office
1975–1976
Personal details
Born1925
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died13 May 2001
Political partyIndependent Unionist (from 1975)
Ulster Unionist (until 1975)
Other political
affiliations
Ulster Protestant Action (1956 - 1966)

Frank Millar (1925 – 13 May 2001) was a Northern Irish unionist politician.

Background

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Millar worked in the shipyards, where he became a shop steward, before becoming a founder member of Ulster Protestant Action in 1956.[1]

Millar was first elected to Belfast City Council in 1972, representing Dock,[2] then the Antrim and Shore Road areas. He held his seat at each subsequent election until retiring in 1993. He was Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1981-2 and 1992-3.[1]

Millar was also elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973 for Belfast North as an Ulster Unionist Party anti-Sunningdale Agreement candidate. He held his seat on the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention in 1975 as an independent Unionist, and for the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly.[1]

In 1986, Millar was fined £100 for describing supporters of Cliftonville F.C. as "Republican bastards". Two years later, he called for Irish Travellers to be "incinerated",[2] while in 1989, he was fined £50 for punching Democratic Unionist Party councillor Sammy Wilson.[1] He also faced criticism for describing Nelson Mandela as a "black Provo", and gay people as "deviants".[2]

In the late 1980s, Millar campaigned against the privatisation of the Harland and Wolff shipyard.[1]

Millar's son, Frank Millar Jr, was also an Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member.[2]

References

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Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)
New assembly Assembly Member for North Belfast
1973–1974
Assembly abolished
Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
New convention Member for North Belfast
1975–1976
Convention dissolved
Northern Ireland Assembly (1982)
New assembly MPA for North Belfast
1982–1986
Assembly abolished
Civic offices
Vacant
Title last held by
Dorothy Dunlop
Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast
1981–1982
Succeeded by
Ted Ashby
Preceded by Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast
1992–1993
Succeeded by