Past Recipients
Prior to the establishment of Ards and North Down Borough Council, the Freedom of the Borough was conferred as below:
Borough of Bangor
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
Borough of Newtownards:
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
Borough of Ards
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)
Borough of North Down
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