- Fraser Agnew
William Alexander Fraser Agnew, known as Fraser Agnew, is a
politician inNorthern Ireland .After growing up in
Ballyclare , Agnew studied at theUniversity of Ulster ,Jordanstown ,Belfast Technical College and theCollege of Business Studies . He worked as a writer andarchitectural draughtsperson and was elected toNewtownabbey Borough Council as anUlster Unionist Party (UUP) representative in 1980. Agnew was also elected to theNorthern 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 anindependent Unionist . [http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/lgnewtownabbey.htm] He was elected under this label at theNorthern Ireland Assembly election, 1998 , when he formed theUnited Unionist Coalition (UUC) with other anti-Good Friday Agreement unionists.All three members of the UUC, including Agnew, lost their seats at the
Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2003 . He held his council seat for the UUC in 2005. [http://www.newtownabbey.gov.uk/council/councillor/party.asp] In March 2007, he was awarded the Freedom of the Borough ofNewtownabbey . [http://www.newtownabbey.gov.uk/news/article.asp?id=331]References
* [http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs/fagnew.htm The Northern Ireland Assembly]
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