{{Short description|Northern Irish politician (1912–1983)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=January 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = William Annon | office = Member of Belfast City Council | constituency = Belfast Area H | term_start = 18 May 1977 | term_end = 19 October 1983 | predecessor = Mary Creighton | successor = Alfie Redpath | office1 = Member of the Constitutional Convention <br/> for North Belfast | term_start1 = 1975 | term_end1 = 1976 | birth_date = 4 June 1912 | birth_place = Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland | death_date = 19 October 1983 | death_place = Belfast, Northern Ireland | party = Democratic Unionist (from 1975) | other_party = Ulster Unionist Party (until 1973) }} '''William Thomas Annon''' (4 June 1912 – 19 October 1983) was a Northern Irish unionist politician.
==Background== Annon was born in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh.<ref>''Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958''</ref> He first became prominent as a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, becoming the chairman of its Sydenham branch, in Belfast.<ref>William D. Flackes, ''Northern Ireland, a political directory, 1968-79'', p.20</ref> He stood as an independent loyalist in East Belfast at the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, taking 2,192 votes, and was not elected.<ref>"[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/ceb.htm East Belfast 1973-82]", Northern Ireland Elections</ref>
He then joined the Democratic Unionist Party, and stood for it in North Belfast for the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention; he took 4,132 first-preference votes and was the last candidate elected.<ref>"[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/cnb.htm North Belfast 1973-1982]", Northern Ireland Elections</ref>
Annon was also prominent in the Apprentice Boys of Derry, and represented it on the United Unionist Action Council.<ref>"Glossary of the strike", ''Irish Times'', 2 May 1977, p.11</ref> At the 1977 Northern Ireland local elections, he was elected in Belfast Area H, and he held his seat in 1981.<ref>"[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/73-81lgbelfast.htm The Local Government Elections 1973-1981: Belfast]", Northern Ireland Elections; accessed 15 May 2016.</ref>
==Death== He died in October 1983 in Belfast, still serving on the council.<ref>''Belfast Telegraph'', pg. 4, 27 February 1984</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Annon, William}} Category:1912 births Category:1983 deaths Category:Ulster Unionist Party politicians Category:Democratic Unionist Party councillors Category:Independent politicians in Northern Ireland Category:Members of Belfast City Council Category:Members of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention