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.
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.
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