Fraser Agnew

William Alexander Fraser Agnew, known as Fraser Agnew, is a politician in Northern Ireland.

Fraser Agnew
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Belfast North
In office
25 June 1998 – 26 November 2003
Preceded byNew Creation
Succeeded byNelson McCausland
Personal details
Political partyUlster Unionist Party
United Unionist Coalition
Alma materUniversity of Ulster

After growing up in Ballyclare, Agnew studied at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Belfast Technical College and the College of Business Studies. He worked as a writer and architectural draughtsperson and was elected to Newtownabbey Borough Council as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) representative in 1980. Agnew was also elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982.

In 1990, Agnew served as the Mayor of Newtownabbey. In the early 1990s, he left the UUP and was later re-elected as an independent Unionist.[1] In 1996, standing for the 'Independent Templeton' ticket, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Forum election in South Antrim.[2] He was elected as an independent in the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election, when he formed the United Unionist Coalition (UUC) with other anti-Good Friday Agreement unionists.

All three members of the UUC, including Agnew, lost their seats at the 2003 Assembly election. He held his council seat for the UUC in 2005.[3] In March 2007, he was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Newtownabbey.[4] In January 2011, he rejoined the UUP.[5] Tom Elliot, leader of the UUP had this to say regarding his decision: “I strongly believe that voters across the province will return, like Fraser, to their natural Ulster Unionist home and I am looking forward to making sure that the UUP becomes the party of choice for all shades of progressive Unionist opinion."[6]

References
  1. Dr Nicholas Whyte. "Newtownabbey Council Elections 1993-2005". Ark.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
  2. Northern Ireland elections
  3. Archived 26 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Agnew comes home to UUP Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine", Ulster Unionist Party, 28 January 2011
  6. "Newtownabbey Times Fraser Agnew Article". Newtown Abbey. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
Sources
Northern Ireland Assembly (1982)
New assembly MPA for South Antrim
1982–1986		 Assembly abolished
Northern Ireland Assembly
New assembly MLA for Belfast North
1998–2003		 Succeeded by
Nelson McCausland
Civic offices
Preceded by
George Herron		 Mayor of Newtownabbey
1990–1991		 Succeeded by
Ken Robinson
Preceded by
Victor Robinson		 Mayor of Newtownabbey
2013–2014		 Succeeded by
Thomas Hogg


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