Frank Millar (politician, born 1925) explained

Frank Millar
Office:Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast
Term Start:1992
Term End:1993
Term Start1:1981
Term End1:1982
Office2:Member of
Belfast City Council
Constituency2:Castle
Term Start2:15 May 1985
Term End2:19 May 1993
Predecessor2:District created
Successor2:David Browne
Constituency3:Belfast Area H
Term Start3:30 May 1973
Term End3:15 May 1985
Predecessor3:District created
Successor3:District abolished
Constituency4:Belfast Dock
Term Start4:1972
Term End4:30 May 1973
Successor4:District abolished
Office5:Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for North Belfast
Term Start5:20 October 1982
Term End5:1986
Term Start6:1973
Term End6:1974
Office7:Member of the Constitutional Convention
for North Belfast
Term Start7:1975
Term End7:1976
Birth Date:1925
Birth Place:Belfast, Northern Ireland
Death Date:13 May 2001
Party:Independent Unionist (from 1975)
Ulster Unionist (until 1975)
Otherparty:Ulster Protestant Action (1956 - 1966)

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

Background

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.

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.

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", while in 1989, he was fined £50 for punching Democratic Unionist Party councillor Sammy Wilson. He also faced criticism for describing Nelson Mandela as a "black Provo", and gay people as "deviants".

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

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

References

  1. "Councillor a legend in local government", Belfast Telegraph
  2. "Millar faces cancer battle", Belfast Telegraph

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