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North Down Borough Council

Councillor James McKerrow

Councillor James McKerrow
"A Strong Unionist Voice for North Down"


Council Area: Bangor West

James McKerrow was elected in 2005 to serve on North Down Borough Council for the first time.

James was born and brought up on the edge of London, taking a degree in mechanical engineering at Imperial College and a Masters in Business Administration and Production Engineering at Cranfield. He moved to Newcastle upon Tyne to work in the heavy electrical industry, coming to live in North Down in 1973 to join Harland and Wolff. In 1976 he joined the Commercial and Marketing Department of Shorts, taking early retirement in 1998. James became a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1970, and the Chartered Institute of Marketing in 1980. Since then he has been involved in social world and has completed a degree at the Open University in economics and politics.

James has been a member of the Ulster Unionist Party since 1995 and is the local Constituency Office Manager and Secretary of the North Down Association. He is also a member of the Ulster Unionist Council and serves on the Party’s Trade and Enterprise Committee.

James is particularly interested in constitutional settlement, law and order, education, and the interests of the older generation. James met and married Eunice in North Down and they have one daughter who works in London.

Outside politics James is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Governors of St Rose’s High School in Belfast, a Director of North Down Community Services, a social enterprise company based in Kilcooley, Director and Treasurer of Age Concern North Down and Ards, a member of the Executive of Age Concern Northern Ireland and a director of ACENT(NI), Age Concern’s trading arm.

James is interested in reading, music and gardening.


Constituency Office:
North Down Borough Council,
Town Hall,
The Castle,
Bangor.
BT20 4BT

Town Hall Phone: (028) 91270371
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