Alderman An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council member chosen by the elected members t ...

Stephen William Moutray (born 25 February 1959) is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician in

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

. He was a

Member of the Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. ...

(MLA) for Upper Bann from 2003 to 2016. He was also a councillor on

Craigavon Borough Council Craigavon Borough Council was a local council in counties Armagh, Down and Antrim, in Northern Ireland. It merged with Armagh City and District Council and Banbridge District Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Nort ...

, where he served as Mayor from 2010 to 2011. Moutray was elected to

in 2001 as a DUP councillor. He is member of all the major committees and is vice-chairman of Environmental Health Committee.

Personal life

Moutray was educated at Lurgan Junior High School and Lurgan College. After which he worked in his family business and then in the postal service. He has been a member of the Democratic Unionist Party since 1979. Married with 3 children, he has keen interest in

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

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and

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. He is an active member of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster.

References

External links

NI Assembly webpage

DUP website
1959 births Living people People from Enniskillen Democratic Unionist Party MLAs Northern Ireland MLAs 2003–2007 Northern Ireland MLAs 2007–2011 Northern Ireland MLAs 2011–2016 Mayors of Craigavon Members of Craigavon Borough Council People educated at Lurgan College Presbyterians from Northern Ireland {{Northern-Ireland-MLA-stub