This article is about mayors of the town on Wembley, a suburb of north west London, England. For information on the Mayor of the Town of Wembley, Alberta, see this website.
This is a list of people who held the office of Mayor of the Municipal Borough of Wembley, Middlesex. The office was created in 1937 when Wembley Urban District was granted a charter of incorporation and abolished in 1965 when it became part of the larger London Borough of Brent.
- Charter Mayor: George Titus Barham was named as Charter Mayor but died on 8 July 1937. The role was taken by Edwin J G Butler.[1]
- 1937-1938: Edwin John Gover Butler
- 1938-1939: Malcolm Campbell [1]
- 1939-1940: Malcolm Campbell (second term)
- 1940-1941: Albert Edward Mason[2]
- 1941-1942: Herbert Gauntlett MBE
- 1942-1943: Clarence Barton
- 1943-1944: George H Plymen
- 1944-1945: Elmer Tom Ashman 1884-1963 [2]
- 1945-1946: Frank Percival Crook 1889-1973 [3]
- 1946-1947: Edith Helen Howse (19 December 1882 - 24 June 1955)
- 1947-1949: Harold Sidney Sirkett born 1885 [4]
- 1949-1950: Sidney G Newland - husband of Alice Newland
- 1950-1951: John Wilfred Ambrose Billam [5]
- 1951-1952: Charles James Life 1886-1968
- 1952-1953: Roland Ormsby Taylor died 1954 aged 64
- 1953-1954: Cyril H Smith
- 1954-1955: Arthur H Edmond - later Sheriff of London [6]
- 1955-1956: Thomas Charles Wardle
- 1956-1957: Leslie J Sullivan
- 1957-1958: George R Marshall
- 1958-1959: Ronald A Penny
- 1959-1960: Lewis R Reece
- 1960-1961: Leslie Laurence Smee 16/4/1904-1970
- 1961-1962: Edwin H Lee
- 1962-1963: Alice M Newland wife of Sidney G Newland [7]
- 1963-1964: Francis Edward Pratt (16 May 1905 - )
- 1964-1965: T W Cornall
References[]
- List provided by Brent Archives Service
- ↑ "The New Borough of Wembley". The Times: p. 13. 25 September 1937.
- ↑ Worked for the BBC from 1927. Became Head of Internal Audits and Costing in 1932, Head of Catering in 1934 and worked in the Publications Department from 1938 and was responsible for circulation of the Radio Times and The Listener. Retired in 1957, having been awarded the OBE earlier in the year.