This is a list of chairmen of Walthamstow Urban District Council, Essex.The office was created when the urban district came into being on 1 January 1895 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1894.
- 1895-1896 John Charles Compton (23 May 1826 - 4 February 1908)
- 1896-1897 Frederick Challis (1855 - 24 April 1937)
- 1897-1898 John Anderson
- 1898-1899 Charles James
- 1899-1900 Charles John Geary
- 1900-1901 Robert John Trice
- 1901-1902 David Ogilvie
- 1902-1903 Edward Good
- 1903-1904 Caleb Day
- 1904-1905 Charles James Wilkes
- 1905-1906 William Roberts
- 1906-1907 Richard Groves Woolley (Born 1853)
- 1907-1908 William Greenshields
- 1908-1909 Harry Brown
- 1909-1910 Harry Brown (second term)
- 1910-1911 Frederick Thomas Charles Bristow (Died 1938 aged 66)
- 1911-1912 Charles Hubert Pollard (Born 1869)
- 1912-1913 Charles William Fisher
- 1913-1914 Thomas How (15 October 1866 - 17 August 1944)[1]
- 1914-1915 Henry Pearce Martin
- 1915-1916 Adolphus Attwell (1854-30 January 1926)[2]
- 1916-1917 John Carpenter Hammond
- 1917-1918 Charles Watkins
- 1918-1919 John 'Jack' William West (c.1872 - 11 December 1929)[3]
- 1919-1920 Alfred Eve
- 1920-1921 Jabez Lyne
- 1921-1922 William James McGuffie [4]
- 1922-1923 Daniel Joseph Quinn (1 July 1867 - 18 January 1943)[5]
- 1923-1924 A.J.D. Llewellyn
- 1924-1925 William Henry Shaw (born 5 October 1869)[6]
- 1925-1926 George Gibbons - Mayor of Walthamstow 1936-37
- 1926-1927 Mrs. Catherine McEntee - Mayor of Walthamstow 1937-38 and 1955-56
- 1927-1927 Henry Frost - Mayor of Walthamstow 1938-39
- 1928-1929 Montague Frank Watcham (1886-1967)
- 1929 William James McGuffie (second term)
See List of Mayors of Walthamstow
Walthamstow received its charter [1] in 1929, and became a municipal borough, with a mayor replacing the office of chairman.
Based on [2]
- ↑ Born in Walthamstow. A master plasterer in 1911, director of a building society in 1939.
- ↑ Builder and contractor. Also a county alderman. Obituary with photograph in Chelmsford Chronicle 5 February 1926.
- ↑ Born in Mile End, builder. Died by suicide. Leader of the Moderate/Anti Labour group on the council.
- ↑ School named after him, and mentioned here
- ↑ Born in Aldershot, the son of Irish parents - his father was a private in an infantry regiment. Worked as a motor fitter and in tyre manufacture.
- ↑ Born in St Luke's, postal sorter.