This is a list of chairmen of Beddington and Wallington Urban District Council. The office was created in April 1915 when the district was formed from part of the abolished Croydon Rural District, and abolished in November 1937 when the urban district was incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Beddington and Wallington, with a mayor replacing the chairman.
List of Chairmen[]
Based on research by Beverley Shew[1], local papers and directories.
- 1915-16: William Brown (born c.1842)[2]
- 1916-17: Richard James Meller (1872 - 23 June 1940)- MP for Mitcham 1923-40 and chairman of Surrey County Council. Knighted 1933. Charter Mayor of Beddington and Wallington
- 1917-18: Frank Le Maitre Mellows (3 December 1854 - 13 December 1922) Father of 1933-34 chairman.
- 1918-19: William Thomas Willcocks (26 January 1868 - 16 November 1941)
- 1919-20: Walter Goodwin Storer (died 3 June 1937)
- 1920-21: William Henry Edwin Godolphin (11 July 1871 - 15 December 1945)
- 1921-22: Arthur Daw
- 1922-23: James Noble
- 1923-24: William Charles Clifford-Smith OBE (30 March 1855 - 3 June 1931)[3]
- 1924-25: Barbara Whiteway Thomas
- 1925-26: Arthur Edward Bennetts
- 1926-27: Frank Willingham Wood
- 1927-28: George Isaac Hitchings
- 1928-29: Henry Charles Maynard
- 1929-30: Arthur Edward Bennetts (second term)
- 1930-31: Edward Cyril Turton Landon (1877 - 7 July 1941)
- 1931-32: James Vale
- 1932-33: Owen Edmund Wiltshear (17 November 1886 - 17 May 1968)
- 1933-34: William Montague Mellows (15 August 1883 - 11 March 1938) Son of 1917-18 chairman.
- 1934-35: Herbert Douglas Banks (17 February 1883 - 17 January 1968)
- 1935-36: George Purser
- 1936-37: William Henry Lewis
For office-holders from November 1937 see List of Mayors of Beddington and Wallington.
- ↑ Beverley Shew. Times Remembered, Times Past - A History of Beddington and Bandon. Carshalton & District History & Archaeology Society.
- ↑ Retired builder, born in Spalding.
- ↑ Architect and engineer for the London County Council Mental Health Service. Obituary here: William Charles Clifford Smith. The Journal of Mental Science (July 1931).