From the Wikipedia page [1]
The Mayor of Newham was a position first established in 1965 with the creation of the London Borough of Newham. It replaced the mayors of East Ham and West Ham. A directly elected mayor of Newham was established in 2002 and the position was renamed as the civic ambassador. The office of Civic Ambassador was discontinued in 2009.
Mayors[]
- 1965 Terence Charles McMillan - has a stadium named after him [2]
- 1966 Alice Emma Gannon
- 1967 Arthur Frank George Edwards
- 1968 Abraham Wolffe
- 1969 Leonard John Simons
- 1970 Michael Davidson
- 1971 Edward Sylvester Charles Kebbell
- 1972 James Christopher Carter
- 1973 Joseph Charles Taylor
- 1974 Harry Bauckham [3]
- 1975 Louis Arthur Wood
- 1976 Herbert Albert Taylor
- 1977 Constance Louise Bock
- 1978 Harold Edward Fitzsimons
- 1979 Marjorie Edith Helps [4], [5]
- 1980 Edward Daly
- 1981 Stanley Hopwood
- 1982 Julia Caroline Isabelle Garfield
- 1983 Herbert Thomas Philpott
- 1984 Charles Albert Flemwell [6]
- 1985 Thomas Nolan
- 1986 John Richard Clow
- 1987 Fredrick Ernest York [7] and others
- 1988 James George Newstead
- 1989 Raymond Massey
- 1990 Sarah Louise Murray
- 1991 Amarjit Singh [8]
- 1992 William Chapman [9]
- 1993 Sarah Jean Reeves
- 1994 Maureen Knight
- 1995 William Henry Brown
- 1996 Shama Ahmed [10]
- 1997 Victor Francis Turner [11], [12]
- 1998 Abdul Karim Sheikh
- 1999 Riaz Ahmed Mirza
- 2000 Bryan Collier [13]
- 2001 Sukhdev Singh Marway [14]
Civic Ambassador[]
- 2002-03 Marie Collier
- 2003-04 Joy Laguda [15]
- 2004-05 Patricia Holland
- 2005-06 Maureen Jonesv [16]
- 2006-07 Pearson Shillingford [17] and [18]
- 2007-08 Omana Gangadharan [19]
- 2008-09 Akbar Chaudhary
- 2009 Office discontinued
Chair of Council[]
Although the office of civic ambassador no longer exists, the council elects a chair at its annual meeting
- 2009-10: Amarjit Singh (first term)
- 2010-11: Amarjit Singh (second term)
- 2011-12: Amarjit Singh (third term)
- 2012-13: Amarjit Singh (fourth term)
- 2013-14: Amarjit Singh (fifth term)
- 2014-15: Joy Laguda MBE (first term)
- 2015-16: Joy Laguda MBE (second term)
- 2016-17: Joy Laguda MBE (third term)
- 2017-18: Joy Laguda MBE (fourth term)
- 2018-19: Joy Laguda MBE (fifth term)
- 2019-21: Joy Laguda MBE (sixth term)
- 2021-22: Winston Vaughan
- 2022-23: Winston Vaughan (second term)
- 2023-24: Rohima Rahman[1]
- 2023-24: Rohima Rahman (second term)
Directly elected mayor of Newham[]
- 2002-2018 Sir Robin Wales
- 2018-2022 Rokhsana Fiaz OBE
- 2022- Rokhsana Fiaz OBE (re-elected) [20]