List of Mayors of Barking

This is a list of people who held the office of Mayor of the Municipal Borough of Barking, Essex. The office was created in 1931 when the borough was incorporated, and abolished in 1965 when Dagenham was included in the larger London Borough of Barking (renamed Barking and Dagenham in 1980).

For office holders before 1931 see List of Chairmen of Barking Town Urban District Council.

• 1931-34: Albert Edward Martin (three terms)
• 1934-35: Alfred George Edwards (1873 - 3 April 1936) [3] and [4].
• 1935-36: Arthur Whiting (1878-16 August 1938) [5], [6] and [7]
• 1936-37: William Joseph James - involved with opening of Eastbury Manor House Museum
• 1937-38: Alfred Graham [8]
• 1938-39: Percival Charles Vesey (1889-1964) [9] and [10]
• 1939-40: Walter Henry Howe
• 1940-43: William Thomas Craig (three terms)
• 1943-44: Alfred Charles Cole
• 1944-45: Julia Hannah Engwell (22 April 1904-1979) - health centre named after her [11]
• 1945-46: Albert Edward Ball For the Nottingham Mayor see [12]
• 1946-47: Edward Ernest Hunter
• 1947-48: Frederick Charles Mallcott (1894-1968)
• 1948-49: Alice Maud Martin [13]
• 1949-50: Bertie Edwin Roycraft
• 1950-51: Frank Edward Lovett
• 1951-52: William George Wermerling (1897-1966) [14] and [15]
• 1952-53: Jack R Sweetland [16]
• 1953-54: G H Collins [17]
• 1954-56: Maud Ball (two terms)
• 1956-57: Elsie Gladys Law 18 April (1895-1975) [18]
• 1957-58: William Henry Roycraft (1906-1961) [19]
• 1958-59: Gilbert James Godfrey Beane (1909-2002)
• 1959-60: Mary Bredo
• 1960-61: Millicent Sarah Preston
• 1961-62: Leonard Wright
• 1962-63: Stan C Sivell (1925-2009)
• 1963-64: Leonard Frederick Henstock (Born 1918)
• 1964-65: Joseph Alfred Butler [20]
• 1964-65: Bertie Edwin Roycraft (second term)

Lists of London Mayors
Lord Mayors of London		Mayors of London
Mayors of Metropolitan Boroughs 1900-1965
Battersea Bermondsey Bethnal Green Camberwell Chelsea Deptford Finsbury	Fulham Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith Hampstead Holborn Islington	Kensington Lambeth Lewisham Paddington Poplar St. Marylebone St. Pancras	Shoreditch Southwark Stepney Stoke Newington Wandsworth Westminster Woolwich
Mayors of Municipal and County Boroughs before 1965
Acton Barking Barnes Beckenham Beddington and Wallington Bexley Brentford and Chiswick Bromley Chingford Croydon	Dagenham Ealing East Ham Edmonton Enfield Erith Finchley Harrow Hendon Heston and Isleworth Hornsey	Ilford Kingston-upon-Thames Leyton Malden and Coombe Mitcham Richmond Romford Southall Southgate Surbiton Sutton and Cheam	Tottenham Twickenham Uxbridge Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford Wembley West Ham Willesden Wimbledon Wood Green
Mayors of London Boroughs from 1965
Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing	Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon	Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham	Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster

References

• Past Council Chairmen and Mayors of Barking 1882-1965. London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.