Billy Bell (politician)

Billy Bell
OBE, JP
Billy Bell OBE, JP
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly; for Lagan Valley
	In office; 25 June 1998 – 7 March 2007
Preceded by	New Creation
Succeeded by	Basil McCrea
Personal details
Born	9 October 1935 (age 89); Belfast, Northern Ireland
Political party	Ulster Unionist Party
Website	Profile, archive.org

William Bradshaw Bell, OBE, JP (born 9 October 1935), is a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland and former Lord Mayor of Belfast.

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, the only person to be mayor of two cities in the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]}

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 election after re-selection by his party, however he lost his seat to fellow UUP candidate, Basil McCrea.

Trivia

He is a cousin of the physicist John Stewart Bell.^{[citation needed]}

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 Basil McCrea
Civic offices
Preceded by David Cook	Lord Mayor of Belfast 1979–1980	Succeeded by John Carson
Preceded by Betty Campbell	Mayor of Lisburn 2002–2003	Succeeded by Cecil Calvert

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