Past Recipients

Prior to the establishment of Ards and North Down Borough Council, the Freedom of the Borough was conferred as below:

4 March 1930: Sir Thomas Saulters Wilson JP

15 July 1954: Alderman Thomas Bailie

16 January 1957: Captain Th Rt Hon The Viscount Brookeborough of Colebrooke

26 April 1957: Alderman and Colonel Sir Cullum Welch

23 May 1968: Alderman Charles F Milligan

23 September 1972: Alderman Robert V Campbell

1 March 1948: Chevalier Alexander Dickson VMH

18 March 1952: The Most Honourable Dame Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry DBE LLD JP

5 November 1962: Alderman Isaac Baxter

17 August 1990: Robert Edmond Gaw

15 September 1990: The 102nd (Ulster) Air Defence Regiment Royal Artillery (Volunteers)

25 April 1992: The Ulster Defence Regiment

27 June 1992: The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th)

21 September 1996: The Royal British Legion (Northern Ireland)

7 October 2000: The Royal Ulster Constabulary

2 March 2001: Royal National Lifeboat Institution

March 2008: Northern Ireland Prison Service

June 2008: Royal Air Force

September 2012: James McBriar (former Councillor, Alderman and Mayor)

6 September 1973: Mr Frederick Tughan

14 May 1981: Alderman J F R Hamilton

14 May 1981: Robert D McConnell OBE

27 May 1982: RUC and RUC Reserve

8 September 1990: Ulster Defence Regiment

12 September 1996: Royal British Legion, Northern Ireland

18 September 1997: Alderman Desmond George Green

17 June 1999: Alderman Bruce Mulligan, BEM

25 September 2004: Royal Irish Regiment 27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment

22 October 2005: (The Officers and Crew of) HMS Bangor

29 June 2007: Northern Ireland Prison Service

18 September 2010: Royal National Lifeboat Institution

24 March 2012: Police Service of Northern Ireland

8 June 2013: 591 (Antrim Artillery) Independent Field Squadron Royal Engineers Volunteers on Behalf of the Territorial Army in Northern Ireland