List of mayors of Westminster

This is a list of Mayors and the later Lord Mayors of the City of Westminster.

The official car of the Lord Mayor of Westminster baring the registration number WE1.

After having elected a mayor since its creation as a Metropolitan Borough in 1900, the City of Westminster was awarded the dignity of a Lord Mayoralty by letters patent dated 11 March 1966. [1]

The Lord Mayor of Westminster is ex-officio the deputy High Steward of Westminster Abbey. By tradition, the Lord Mayor of Westminster visits Oslo every year in the late autumn to take part in the felling of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree.

Mayors of Westminster
Major-General Lord Cheylemore. Mayor of Westminster 1904–1905. As depicted by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, October 1891
Year Name Notes
1900Duke of Norfolk1st Mayor of Westminster
1901Colonel Clifford Probyn
1902Captain Herbert Merton Jessel[2]MP for St Pancras South 1896–1906, 1910–1918
1903Walter EmdenArchitect
1904Major-General Lord CheylesmoreArmy officer
1905George William Tallents
1907John William DennisMP for Birmingham, Deritend 1918–1922
1908Robert Woolley Walden
1909Rev. Frederick Harcourt Hillersdon
1910Edward Lygon Somers Cocks
1911John Maria GattiTheatre manager, restaurateur and businessman
1912Harold Lyon Thomson
1913Reginald White Granville-Smith
1914George Booth Heming
1915–1918George Earle Welby3 terms
1918George William Tallents2nd term
1919Edward St Leger, 6th Viscount Doneraile
1920Samuel Gluckstein
1921George Washington Lawrence
1922Frank Gibbs Rye
1923William Edgar Horne
1924Silvio Paul Bernini Bucknall
1925George Henry Heilbuth
1926Silvio Paul Bernini Bucknall2nd term
1927Jacques AbadyLawyer
1928Major Vivian Barry Rogers
1929–1930Captain Julien Frederick Charles Bennett2 terms
1931–1932Rev. Edward St George Schomberg2 terms
1933–1934Frederick George Rudler2 terms
1935James Cornelius Dalton
1936Arthur Jared Palmer HowardMP for Westminster St George's 1945–1950
1937Harry Sheil Elster Vanderpant
1938George Frederick Jerdain
1939Major Richard RiggMP for Appleby division, 1900–1905
1940Leonard Eaton SmithKilled in an air raid in May 1941. Post left vacant for rest of term.
1941George Frederick Jerdain2nd term
1942W. Stanley Edgson
1943Hubert Victor Day
1944Maurice G. Giles
1945Edward Herbert KeelingMP for Twickenham, 1935–1954
1946Greville Reginald Charles HowardMP for St Ives, 1950–1966
1947–1948Hal Gutteridge2 terms
1949Colonel J. Allan Mulholland
1950Wilfred Eric Rice
1951Albert Sciver
1952Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Norman Edwards
1953Charles Pearce Russell
1954John Gordon Elsworthy
1955–1956Patrick Stirling2 terms
1957Sir Charles Norton
1958David Neville CobboldLawyer
1959Group Captain Gordon Pirie
1960Robert L. Everest
1961Jack Lodewyk Charles Dribbell
1962Paul Antony Negretti
1963Leslie Farmiloe
1964Brian Fitzgerald-Moore

Lord Mayors of Westminster
Year Name Notes
1965Sir Charles Norton2nd term. First Lord Mayor.
1966Anthony L. Burton
1966Arthur C. Barrett
1967Christopher Anthony Prendergast
1968Leonard Pearl
1970Brian Fitzgerald-Moore2nd term
1971John Wells
1972John E. Guest
1973David Neville Cobbold2nd term
1974Group Captain Gordon Pirie2nd term
1975Roger M. Dawe
1976Jack Gillett
1977Sir Hugh Cubitt
1978Wing Commander William Henry Kearney
1979Reginald Forrester
1980Donald du Parc Braham
1981G. I. Harley
1982Thomas Whipham
1983Phoebette SitwellFirst female Lord Mayor
1984John Bull
1985Roger Bramble
1986Mrs Terence Mallinson
1987Kevin Gardner
1988Elizabeth Flach
1989Simon Mabey
1990Dr David Avery
1991Dame Shirley Porter
1992Dr Cyril Nemeth
1993Jenny Bianco
1994Angela Hooper
1995Alan Bradley
1996Robert Davis
1997Ronald Raymond-Cox
1998David Harvey
1999Alex Segal
2000Michael Brahams
2001Harvey Marshall
2002Frances Blois
2003Jan Prendergast
2004Catherine Longworth
2005Tim Joiner
2006Alexander Nicoll
2007Carolyn Keen
2008Louise Hyams
2009Duncan Sandys
2010Judith Warner
2011Susie Burbridge
2012Angela Harvey
2013Sarah Richardson
2014Audrey Lewis
2015Lady Christabel Flight
2016 Steve Summers
2017 Ian Adams
2018 Lindsey Hall
2019 Ruth Bush
2020 Jonathan Glanz[3]

References
  1. "No. 43921". The London Gazette. 11 March 1966. p. 2704.
  2. "Election of Mayors". The Times (36922). London. 11 November 1902. p. 12.
  3. "City of Westminster elects new Lord Mayor". Westminster City Council. 21 May 2020.
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