List of mayors of Westminster


This is a list of mayors and the later lord mayors of the City of Westminster.
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.
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

YearNameNotes
1900Duke of Norfolk1st Mayor of Westminster
1901Colonel Clifford Probyn
1902Captain Herbert Merton JesselMP 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