This is a list of people who have held the office of Mayor or Lord Mayor of the City of Westminster. The office of Mayor of Westminster was created in 1900 with the formation of the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster. The borough had the status of city.[1]
In 1965 the metropolitan borough was abolished and replaced with a larger London borough, the City of Westminster. In 1966 the office of Mayor was elevated to Lord Mayor.[2] [3]
Metropolitan Borough[]
- 1900-1901 Duke of Norfolk
- 1901-1902 Colonel Clifford Probyn
- 1902-1903 Captain Herbert Merton Jessel MP
- 1903-1904 Walter Emden
- 1904-1905 Major-General Lord Cheylesmore
- 1905-1906 Major General Lord Cheylsmore (second term)
- 1906-1907 George William Tallents
- 1907-1908 John William Dennis
- 1907-1908 Robert Woolley Walden
- 1908-1909 Rev. Frederick Harcourt Hillersdon [4]
- 1909-1910 Edward Lygon Somers Cocks
- 1911-1912 John Maria Gatti
- 1912-1913 Harold Lyon Thomson
- 1913-1914 Reginald White Granville-Smith
- 1914-1915 George Booth Heming
- 1915-1916 George Earle Welby
- 1916-1917 George Earle Welby (second term)
- 1917-1918 George Earle Welby (third term)
- 1918-1919 George William Tallents (second term)
- 1919-1920 Edward St Leger, 6th Viscount Doneraile
- 1920-1921 Samuel Gluckstein
- 1921-1922 George Washington Lawrence
- 1922-1923 Frank Gibbs Rye
- 1923-1924 William Edgar Horne
- 1924-1925 Silvio Paul Bernini Bucknall [5]
- 1925-1926 George Henry Heilbuth 1868-1942 [6]
- 1926-1927 Silvio Paul Bernini Bucknall (second term)
- 1927-1928 Jacques Abady
- 1928-1929 Major Vivian Barry Rogers 1887-1965 [7]
- 1929-1930 Captain Julien Frederick Charles Bennett [8]
- 1930-1931 Captain Julien Frederick Charles Bennett (second term)
- 1931-1932 Rev. Edward St George Schomberg
- 1932-1933 Rev. Edward St George Schomberg (second term)
- 1933-1934 Frederick George Rudler [9]
- 1934-1935 Frederick George Rudler (second term)
- 1935-1936 James Cornelius Dalton
- 1936-1937 Arthur Jared Palmer Howard
- 1937-1938 Harry Sheil Elster Vanderpant
- 1938-1939 George Frederick Jerdain
- 1939-1940 Major Richard Rigg
- 1940-1941 Leonard Eaton Smith Killed in an air raid in May 1941: post left vacant for rest of term and duties performed by Deputy Mayor, George Frederick Jerdain [10]
- 1941-1942 George Frederick Jerdain (second term)
- 1942-1943 Walter Stanley Edgson
- 1943-1944 Hubert Victor Day [11]
- 1944-1945 Maurice G Giles [12]
- 1945-1946 Edward Herbert Keeling
- 1946-1947 Greville Reginald Charles Howard
- 1947-1949 Hal Gutteridge [13]
- 1949-1950 Colonel J Allan Mulholland
- 1950-1951 Wilfred Eric Rice
- 1951-1952 Albert Sciver
- 1952-1953 Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Norman Edwards
- 1953-1954 Charles Pearce Russell
- 1954-1955 John Gordon Elsworthy 1871-1968
- 1955-1956 (Hugh) Patrick Stirling [14]
- 1956-1957 (Hugh) Patrick Stirling (second term)
- 1957-1958 Sir Charles Norton
- 1958-1959 David Neville Cobbold
- 1959-1960 Group Captain Gordon Pirie
- 1960-1961 Robert L Everest [15]
- 1961-1962 Jack Lodewyk Charles Dribbell
- 1962-1963 Paul Antony Negretti
- 1963-1964 Leslie Farmiloe
- 1964-1965 Brian Fitzgerald-Moore [45]
London Borough[]
- 1964-1965 Leonard Pearl: Chairman of the shadow London Borough Council
- 1965-1966 Sir Charles Norton (second term: first Lord Mayor)
- 1966-1967 Anthony L Burton - member Paddington Borough Council [46]
- 1966-1967 Arthur Charles Barrett - member Paddington Borough Council
- 1967-1968 Christopher Anthony Prendergast 1931-98 - on Westminster City Council [47]
- 1968-1969 Leonard Pearl [16]
- 1970-1971 Brian Fitzgerald-Moore (second term)
- 1971-1972 John Wells [17]
- 1972-1973 John E. Guest [18]
- 1973-1974 David Cobbold (second term)
- 1974-1975 Group Captain Gordon Pirie (second term)
- 1975-1976 Roger Meredith Dawe died 24 April 2011 aged 92 [48] [19]
- 1976-1977 Jack Gillett - last Mayor of Paddington 1964-65
- 1977-1978 Hugh Cubitt 21 June 1917-1977 [49][20]
- 1978-1979 Wing Commander William Henry Kearney [50]
- 1979-1980 Reginald W Forrester [21]
- 1980-1981 Donald du Parc Braham 29 June 1928-2005 [22]
- 1981-1982 G Ian Harley [23]
- 1982-1983 Thomas Whipham [24]
- 1983-1984 Phoebette Sitwell [51], [52]
- 1984-1985 John Bull [53]
- 1985-1986 Roger Bramble
- 1986-1987 Mrs. Anne Mallinson [25]
- 1987-1988 Kevin Gardner 1930-2007 [26]; husband of Rachel Trixie Anne Gardner, and father of Joanna Garner, Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 2008-9.
- 1988-1989 Elizabeth Flach [27]
- 1989-1990 Simon Mabey 29 September 1952 [28]
- 1990-1991 Dr. David Avery
- 1991-1992 Dame Shirley Porter
- 1992-1993 Dr. Cyril Nemeth 6 May 1927-10 April 2018 [54]
- 1993-1994 Jenny Bianco
- 1994-1995 Angela Hooper died 2009 [29]
- 1995-1996 Alan Bradley Died October 2019 [55], [56] and [57]
- 1996-1997 Robert Davis
- 1997-1998 Ronald Raymond-Cox [30]
- 1998-1999 David Harvey
- 1999-2000 Alex Segal
- 2000-2001 Michael Brahams [58]
- 2001-2002 Harvey Marshall [59] [31]
- 2002-2003 Frances Blois [60] [61]
- 2003-2004 Jan Prendergast [32]
- 2004-2005 Catherine Longworth
- 2005-2006 Tim Joiner [33]
- 2006-2007 Alexander Nicoll [62]
- 2007-2008 Carolyn Keen [34]
- 2008-2009 Louise Hyams [35]
- 2009-2010 Duncan Sandys
- 2010-2011 Judith Warner [36]
- 2011-2012 Susie Burbridge [37]
- 2012-2013 Angela Harvey [63]
- 2013-2014 Sarah Richardson [38]
- 2014-2015 Audrey Lewis [39]
- 2015-2016 Christabel Flight, Lady Flight[40]
- 2016-2017 Steve Summers [64]
- 2017-2018 Ian Adams [65]
- 2018-2019 Lindsey Hall[41]
- 2019-20 Ruth Bush [66]
- 2020-21 Jonathan Glanz
- 2021-22 Election deferred until 9 September 2021. The 2020-21 Lord Mayor continued in office until then.[42]
- 9 September 2021-22 Andrew Smith [67]
- 2022-23 Hamza Taouzzale [68]
- 2023-24 Patricia McAllister[43]
- 2024-25 Robert Charles Rigby[44]
References[]
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 27242. p. 6613. 30 October 1900. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
- ↑ London Gazette: no. 43921. p. 2704. 11 March 1966. Retrieved 17 June 2008.
- ↑ Past Lord Mayors. Westminster City Council.
- ↑ 1880-1944 [1], [2], and [3]: his granddaughter is described here [4]
- ↑ c. 1896-1978
- ↑ [5] and [6]
- ↑ [7], [8], and [9]
- ↑ 1872-1962 [10] and [11]
- ↑ [12] 1887-1936
- ↑ Born 1874, died 11 May [13] [14]] and [15]. Albert George Richard Henley, Mayor of Bermondsey, was killed on the same night.
- ↑ 1878-1952
- ↑ [16]] and [17]
- ↑ The Representation of the People Act 1948 changed the date of mayoral elections from November to May. Mayors elected in November 1947 remained in office until May 1949.
- ↑ [18] and [19]
- ↑ [20], [21]
- ↑ [22]
- ↑ [23] - on Westminster City Council
- ↑ - on St Marylebone Borough Council
- ↑ - on St Marylebone Borough Council
- ↑ - on Westminster City Council
- ↑ - on St Marylebone Borough Council
- ↑ [24]
- ↑ - wrote a book on St Marylebone Charity School
- ↑ - on St Marylebone Borough Council. Member of Goldsmiths' Company. Died 2006 [25]
- ↑ [26] and [27]
- ↑ - [28]
- ↑ [29]
- ↑ [30] and [31]. An accountant [32]
- ↑ [33],
- ↑ [34]; details of wife [35]
- ↑ [36]
- ↑ [37]
- ↑ [38]
- ↑ [39]
- ↑ [40]
- ↑ [41]
- ↑ [42]
- ↑ [43]
- ↑ [44]
- ↑ Hannah McGrath (28 May 2015). Westminster elects the Lady Flight as Lord Mayor. Ham & High.
- ↑ CITY OF WESTMINSTER MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS.
- ↑ Agenda and Draft Minutes - Council - Wednesday 21st April, 2021 7.00 pm. City of Westminster.
- ↑ Council - Wednesday 17th May, 2023 7.00 pm. City of Westminster.
- ↑ New Lord Mayor of Westminster elected. City of Westminster (15 May 2024).