Adamson, Dr. Ian, OBE, MB, BCh, BAO, DCH, MFCH, FRIPHH.

Member (East Belfast), Ulster Unionist Party, Northern Ireland Assembly since 1998;

Community Medical Officer, North and West Belfast Trust;

Former Lord Mayor of Belfast; b. 28.6.44, Bangor, County Down;

m., Kerry Carson.

Educ. Bangor Grammar School; Queen's University, Belfast.

Registrar in Paediatrics, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children/Belfast City Hospital/Ulster Hospital, Dundonald; Specialist Community Child Health and Travel Medicine.

Founding Chairman:Somme Association, 1989; Ulster-Scots Language Society, 1994;

Founding Secretary Farset Youth and Community Development Ltd, 1982;

Founding Member: Cultural Traditions Group of the CRC; The Ultach Trust; First Rector, Ulster-Scots Academy, 1994.

Publications: The Cruthin, 1974; Bangor - Light of the World, 1975; The Battle of Moira, 1980; The Identity of Ulster, 1982; The Ulster People, 1991; 1690, William and the Boyne, 1995; Dalaradia, Kingdom of the Cruthin, 1998. Councillor, Belfast City Council since 1989; Lord Mayor of Belfast, 1996; Serving Brother, Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1998.

Recreations: reading; oil painting; languages.

Address: Members Room, City Hall, Belfast, BT1 5GS.