William Jenkins (Northern Ireland politician) explained

William Jenkins
Office:Lord Mayor of Belfast
Term Start:1963
Term End:1966
Predecessor:Martin Kelso Wallace
Successor:William Duncan Geddis
Office1:High Sheriff of Belfast
Term Start1:1961
Term End1:1962
Predecessor1:William Duncan Geddis
Successor1:William McCracken
Birth Date:25 July 1904

William Jenkins (born 25 July 1904) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Jenkins studied at the Belfast College of Technology[1] then worked in Bombay from 1931 to 1956 as the director of a tea company. He then returned to Northern Ireland, where he held numerous directorships, but also found time to sit on the Belfast Corporation as an Ulster Unionist Party member. He served as Lord Mayor of Belfast from 1963 to 1966.[2]

References

  1. Kelly's handbook to the titled, landed and official classes, Vol. 95, p.1095
  2. John F. Harbinson, The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973, p.208