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Billy Bell (politician)

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Billy Bell
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Lagan Valley
In office
25 June 1998 – 7 March 2007
Preceded byNew Creation
Succeeded byBasil McCrea
Member of Lisburn City Council
In office
17 May 1989 – 5 May 2005
Preceded byRichard Scott
Succeeded byStephen Moore
ConstituencyDunmurry Cross
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for South Antrim
In office
20 October 1982 – 1986
Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office
1979–1980
Preceded byDavid Cook
Succeeded byJohn Carson
Member of Belfast City Council
In office
18 May 1977 – 15 May 1985
Preceded byDavid Smylie
Succeeded byDistrict abolished
ConstituencyBelfast Area E
Member of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
for Belfast North
In office
1975–1976
Personal details
Born9 October 1935
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Died9 June 2020
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Resting placeDundonald Cemetery
Political partyUlster Unionist Party
WebsiteProfile, archive.org

William Bradshaw Bell, OBE, JP (9 October 1935 – 9 June 2020), was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician from Northern Ireland, and a former Lord Mayor of Belfast. Bell was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Lagan Valley from 1998 to 2007.

Political career

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He served as a Councillor on Belfast City Council from 1976 to 1985 and was Lord Mayor of Belfast from 1979 to 1980. He also served on Lisburn Council (1989–2007) and was Mayor of the City of Lisburn in 2003.

He was Personal Assistant to MP Rt Hon Sir James Molyneaux from 1976 to 1997. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention (1975–1976) for North Belfast, and to the Northern Ireland Assembly for the Lagan Valley constituency in 1998 and again in 2003. In 1996 he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Forum election in Lagan Valley.[1] Bell stood in the 2007 Assembly election after re-selection by his party. However, he lost his seat to fellow UUP candidate, Basil McCrea.

He was appointed a Justice of the peace in 1985, and was a member of the Northern Ireland Housing Council.[citation needed]

References

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Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
New convention Member for North Belfast
1975–1976
Convention abolished
Northern Ireland Assembly (1982)
New assembly MPA for South Antrim
1982–1986
Assembly abolished
Northern Ireland Assembly
New assembly MLA for Lagan Valley
1998–2007
Succeeded by
Civic offices
Preceded by Lord Mayor of Belfast
1979–1980
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Betty Campbell
Mayor of Lisburn
2002–2003
Succeeded by