Cecil McKee
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Sir William Cecil McKee ERD{{cite web|title=McKEE, Major Sir (William) Cecil|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U25854|website=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black}} (1905 – January 2003) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
Life and career
Born in Newtownards McKee attended Methodist College Belfast.{{cite web|title=McKEE, Major Sir (William) Cecil|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U25854|website=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black}} He took an engineering apprenticeship before joining the family estate agency. He was elected to the Belfast Corporation for the Ulster Unionist Party in 1934, and in 1938 took a commission in the Territorial Army's anti-aircraft brigade. He served with the British Expeditionary Force and spent part of World War II based in the Faroe Islands. He was demobbed in 1945 and returned to the council, becoming High Sheriff of Belfast in 1947 and Deputy Lord Mayor in 1948. Finally, in 1957, he was elected as the Lord Mayor of Belfast, which made him an ex-officio member of the Senate of Northern Ireland.
He received a knighthood at the end of his term of office, in 1959."Tributes paid to ex-Lord Mayor; Obituary", Belfast News Letter, 7 January 2003 The following year he received an honorary LLD from Queen's University Belfast.{{cite web|title=McKEE, Major Sir (William) Cecil|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U25854|website=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black}}
In the 1967 Belfast Corporation election, McKee stood as an independent unionist, but suffered a surprise defeat.{{cite news |title=Unionists increase Belfast strength |work=Irish Times |date=19 May 1967}}
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Category:High sheriffs of Belfast
Category:Lord mayors of Belfast
Category:Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1957–1961
Category:Ulster Unionist Party members of the Senate of Northern Ireland