Dixie Gilmore

Politician

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Who is Dixie Gilmore?

John Smiley Dixon "Dixie" Gilmore OBE was Lord Mayor of Belfast from 1987 to 1988 having previously been Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast. He was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1989.

Gilmore was a member of the Ulster Unionist Party and had formerly served in the British Army in Malaysia where he met his wife Esme. He was a member of Belfast City Council from 1973–77 and then was Alderman for Laganbank from 1985-1993.

Gilmore was a shopkeeper by trade, owning a corner shop on Belfast's Cromwell Road in the University area.

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Also known as
  • J. J. Dixon Gilmore
Lived in
  • Belfast

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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