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Name: Mr Billy Bell
Party: Ulster Unionist Party
Constituency: Lagan Valley
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Place and Date of Birth: Belfast
09.10.1935
Married: Yes
Family: 1 son 3 daughters
Education:

Fane Street Primary School
Grosvenor High School (now Grosvenor Grammar)

Occupation and brief
outline of career:

Sales Promotion
Marketing and Public Relations
Proprietor Billy Bell Promotions 1987-1998

Brief outline of public/
political career:
Elected Member NI Constitutional Convention, 1975-1976
Served as a Councillor on Belfast City Council, 1976-1985
Served as Lord Mayor, 1979-1980
Personal Assistant: Rt Hon Sir James Molyneaux M.P. (Lord Molyneaux of Killead), 1976-1997
Member of Belfast Education and Library Board, 1976-1979
Member of Eastern Health and Social Services Board, 1976-1978
Member of Board: Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, 1976-1980
Member of NI Rent Assessment Board, 1979-1982
Elected Member of NI Assembly, 1982-1986
Chairman of Belfast Gas Committee Belfast City Council, 1983-1985
Chairman of NI Gas Employers Board, 1984-1987
Deputy Chairman Finance and Personnel Committee - NI Assembly, 1984-1987
Appointed Justice of the Peace, 1985-present
Elected Member of Lisburn Borough Council, 1989-present
Chairman Police Liaison Committee Lisburn Borough Council, 1991-1993
Chairman Board of Governors Killowen Primary School, 1991-1993
Chairman of Finance and GP Committee Lisburn Borough Council, 1993-1995
South Eastern Building Control Group Committee, 1993-present
Member of the NI Housing Council, 1994-present
Member of Housing Liaison Committee Lisburn Borough Council, 1994-present
Chairman of Economic Development and Marketing Committee Lisburn Borough Council, 1997-present
Member of Board Northern Ireland Housing Executive, 1997-1998
Elected Member Northern Ireland Assembly, 1998-present
UUP Spokesman, Finance and Personnel Department NI, 1999
Other memberships/ interests/
achievements/awards:

Memberships
As Lord Mayor of Belfast I was an ex-officio Member of the Senate of Queens University Belfast and the Board of the Belfast Harbour Commissioners.
I have been President of Action Cancer and a Committee Member of the Forces Help Society until its re-organisation.
Whilst on Belfast City Council, I was for two years a member of the Local Government Staff Commission.


Interests
Music
Gardening
Linfield Football Club