Between 1998 and 2011 he served as an
Ulster Unionist Party MLA for
North Antrim. Coulter was born in 1929, making him the second oldest MLA after the
Rev. Ian Paisley. He was educated at
Ballymena College,
Trinity College, Dublin and the
University of Ulster. He was married, with one son and one daughter. He was a retired
Presbyterian minister and a former lecturer in religious studies at
Belfast Institute for Further and Higher Education. He was elected a Councillor for
Ballymena Borough Council in 1985 and was Mayor of Ballymena from 1993 to 1996. Coulter was elected
Alderman of the Borough of Ballymena in 1996. He was elected to represent the constituency of North Antrim in the
Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue (1996–1998) At the
1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election, he was elected as an
Ulster Unionist Party MLA for
North Antrim. In 2010, the reverend Dr. Robert Coulter was honored for his public service with membership in the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Coulter did not put his name forward for the 2011 election in North Antrim, effectively retiring. He was in his 80s. Coulter died on 5 September 2018, at the age of 88. ==References==