Herbert Ditty (politician)

Herbert Ditty (died 1998) was a Northern Irish Ulster loyalist politician and activist who served as Lord Mayor of Belfast from June 1992 to 1993, having previously been deputy lord mayor from 1991 to 1992.

A member of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), he was a Belfast City Councillor from 1973 to 1981, then 1985 until 1993.

He was later unseated by the Democratic Unionist Party's Joe Coggle in the 1981 local elections.

[2] Ditty returned to the council in 1985, this time for the successor Court District.

[4] He lost his council seat at the May 1993 local elections, while still serving as lord mayor.