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This is a list of individuals who held the office of Mayor of the Municipal Borough of Finchley, Middlesex. The office was created in 1933 when Finchley Urban District was granted a charter of incorporation and abolished in 1965 when the area was absorbed into the larger London Borough of Barnet.

  • Charter Mayor: Vyvyan Wells
  • 1933-34: Vyvyan Wells
  • 1934-35: Charles Stephen Syrett
  • 1935-36: Samuel Pulham [11] and [12]
  • 1936-37: Samuel Pulham (second term)
  • 1937-38: Alfred Thomas Pike [1]
  • 1938-39: John Hugh Jones
  • 1939-40: John Hugh Jones (second term)
  • 1940-41: Herbert H Wilmot [2]
  • 1941-42: Major Herbert William Steward (13 October 1882-31 October 1948)
  • 1942-43: Rev Walter Lewis Brooksbank [3]
  • 1943-44: Donald Archibald Alfred Merry [4]
  • 1944-45: Mrs Mary E Legge [5]
  • 1945-46: Cyril Peter Grobel
  • 1946-47: Reginald John Nathan Norman (5 January 1899-1976)
  • 1947-49: Percy Lawrence
  • 1949-50: John Gordon Bryson [6]
  • 1950-51: Frederick L Pike (d.30 December 1957)
  • 1951-52: William J Enright [7]
  • 1952-53: Emil Grant
  • 1953-54: John Gordon Bryson (second term)
  • 1954-55: Mrs G I Wilson
  • 1955-56: Charles Joseph Hartigan (1 February 1900-1985)
  • 1956-57: George Theodore Brunskill (1895-1963)
  • 1957-58: George W Reed [8]
  • 1958-59: Alfred Thomas Pike (second term)
  • 1959-60: Major Kenneth McClellan Cave MC [9] [13], [14] and [15]
  • 1960-61: William "Bill" George Hart[10] [16]
  • 1961-62: Frank Dale Gibson [17] and [18] 30 June (1926-1989)
  • 1962-63: Norman James Sapsted - later Mayor of Barnet 1978-79
  • 1963-64: Frank Davis [11]
  • 1964-65: J Murray Medway[12]
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 and notes[]

  1. 18 July 1894-1981 [1], [2], [3] and [4]
  2. Had a Youth Centre named after him. [5]
  3. 1880-1960
  4. 1887-1960)
  5. [6]
  6. 20 March 1907-1985 [7]
  7. [8]; partner in a West End tailoring firm (and involved in robing the peers for the Coronation)
  8. [9]
  9. Died 1962 aged 68.
  10. "Mr W. G. Hart, deputy secretary of the Central Electricity Generating Board's Eastern Division, since 1950, is to be Mayor of Finchley this year. Before nationalisation, he worked in the Finchley electricity department" The Electrical Journal - Volume 164. 1960. p. 690. 
  11. [10] born 1913
  12. AJR Information (July 1964).
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