List of Lord Mayors of London
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List of all Mayors and Lord Mayors of London (head of the City of London Corporation and first citizen of the City of London
City of London
The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...

). Until 1354, the title
Title
A title is a prefix or suffix added to someone's name to signify either veneration, an official position or a professional or academic qualification. In some languages, titles may even be inserted between a first and last name...

 was Mayor of London. The dates are those of Election to Office (Michaelmas Day 29 September, excepting those years when it fell on the Sabbath) and office is not actually entered until the second week of November. Therefore the years 'Elected' below do not represent the main calendar year of service. Since 2006, the formal title has been Lord Mayor of the City of London.

before 1300

Elected Name
1189-1212 Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonestone
Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonestone
Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonestone was the first Mayor of London . He held office from 1189 until his death in 1212.-History:...

 First Mayor of London (24 terms)
1212-1214 Roger Fitzalan 
1215 Serlo le Mercer (1st term)
1215 William Hardell 
1216 James Alderman 
1217 Salomon de Basing
1218-1221 Serlo le Mercer (terms 2-5)
1222-1226 Richard Renger (terms 1-5)
1227-1230 Roger le Duke (4 terms)
1231-1237 Andrew Buckerel (7 terms)
1238 Richard Renger {6th term)
1239 William Joynier 
1240 Gerard Bat 
1240 Reginald de Bungheye
1241-1243 Ralph Ashwy (3 terms)
1244-1245 Michael Tovy (terms 1-2)
1246 John Gisors (1st term)
1246 Peter Fitzalan 
1247-1248 Michael Tovy (terms 3-4)
1249 Roger Fitzroger
1250 John Norman

Elected Name
| 1251 Adam de Basing 
| 1252 John Tulesan
| 1253 Nicholas Bat
| 1254-1257 Ralph Hardel  (4 terms)
1258 William Fitzrichard (1st term)
1258 John Gisors (2nd term)
1259-1260 William Fitzrichard (terms 2-3)
1261-1264 Thomas Fitzthomas  (4 terms)
1265 Hugh Fitzotho (1st term)
1265 John Walerand
1265 John de La Linde
1266 William Fitzrichard (4th term)
| 1267 Alan la Zuche 
1268 Thomas de Ippegrave
| 1268 Stephen de Eddeworth
| 1269 Hugh Fitzotho (2nd term)
| 1270 John Adrien 
1271-1272 Walter Hervey (2 terms)
| 1273 Henry le Walleis (1st term)
| 1274-1280 Gregory de Rokesley (terms 1-7)
| 1281-1283 Henry le Walleis (terms 2-4)
| 1284 Gregory de Rokesley (8th term)
1285-1289 Ralph de Sandwich (terms 1-5)
| 1289 John le Breton  (1st term)
| 1289-1292 Ralph de Sandwich (terms 6-9)
1293-1298 John le Breton (terms 2-7)
| 1298 Henry le Walleis (5th term)
1299-1301 Elias Russell


14th century

Elected Name
1301-1307 John le Blund
1308 Nicholas de Farndone (1st term)
1309 Thomas Romeyn
1310 Richer de Refham
1311-1312 John de Gisors (terms 1-2)
1313 Nicholas de Farndone (2nd term)
1314 John de Gisors (3rd term)
1315 Stephen de Abyndon
1316-1318 John de Wengrave (2 terms)
1319 Hamo de Chigwell (1st term)
1320 Nicholas de Farndone (3rd term)
1321 Robert de Kendale
1321-1322 Hamo de Chigwell (terms 2-3)
1323 Nicholas de Farndone (4th term)
1323-1325 Hamo de Chigwell (terms 4-6)
1326 Richard de Betoyne
1327 Hamo de Chigwell (7th term)
1328 John de Grantham
1329 Simon Swanlond

Elected Name
1330-1331 John de Pulteney (terms 1-2)
1332 John de Prestone
1333 John de Pulteney (3rd term)
1334-1335 Reginald de Conduit (2nd term)
1336 John de Pulteney (4th term)
1337-1338 Henry Darci (2 terms)
1339-1340 Andrew Aubrey (terms 1-2)
1341 John de Oxenford
1342 Simon Frauncis (1st term)
1343-1344 John Hamond (2 terms)
1345 Richard le Lacer
Richard le Lacer
Richard le Lacer of Bromley, Kent, was an English mercer and Mayor of London.He was appointed Sheriff of the City of London in 1329 and elected Mayor of London in 1345.He was married to Juliana, daughter of Steven de Asshewy and Margaret de Apuldrefield...

1346 Geoffrey de Wichingham
1347 Thomas Leggy (1st term)
1348 John Lovekyn
John Lovekyn
Sir John Lovekyn was a City of London fishmonger who was three times Lord Mayor of London.He served as Sheriff of the City of London in 1342 and first became Lord Mayor in 1348, and was elected to a second term in 1358. His third term was more unexpected. On 28 October 1365, Adam de Bury was...

 (1st term)
1349 Walter Turke
1350 Richard de Kislingbury
1351 Andrew Aubrey (3rd term)
1352-1353 Adam Fraunceys (2 terms)


14th century

Elected Name
1354 Thomas Leggy (2nd term); First Lord Mayor
1355 Simon Frauncis (2nd term - 1st term as Lord Mayor)
1356 Henry Picard
Henry Picard (Lord Mayor of London)
Sir Henry Picard was Lord Mayor of London in 1356-57.He was made Sheriff of the City of London in 1348 and elected Lord Mayor in 1356.In 1363 he organised the meeting of the king of England Edward III with the kings of Scotland, France, Denmark and Cyprus....

1357 John de Stodeye
1358 John Lovekyn (2nd term - 1st term as Lord Mayor)
1359 Simon Dolseley
1360 John Wroth
1361 John Pecche
1362 Stephen Cavendisshe
1363 John Nott
1364-1365 Adam de Bury (terms 1-2)
1366 John Lovekyn (3rd term - 2nd term as Lord Mayor)
1367 James Andreu
1368 Simon de Mordone
1369 John de Chichester
1370-1371 John Bernes (2 terms)
1372 John Pyel
1373 Adam de Bury (3rd term)
1374 William Walworth
William Walworth
Sir William Walworth , was twice Lord Mayor of London . He is best known for killing Wat Tyler.His family came from Durham...

 (1st term)
1375 John Warde
1376 Adam Stable
1377 Nicholas Brembre
Nicholas Brembre
Sir Nicholas Brembre was a wealthy magnate and a chief ally of King Richard II in 14th c-entury England. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1377, and again from 1383-5. Named a "worthie and puissant man of the city" by Richard Grafton he was a son of Sir John Brembre, and, becoming a citizen and...

 (1st term)
1378 John Philipot
1379 John Hadle (1st term)
1380 William Walworth (2nd term)

Elected Name
1381-1382 John de Northampton (2 terms)
1383-1385 Sir Nicholas Brembre (terms 2-4)
1386-1387 Nicholas Exton (2 terms)
1388 Sir Nicholas Twyford
1389 William Venour
1390 Adam Bamme
1391 John Heende (1st term)
1392 Sir Edward Dalyngrigge
1392 Sir Baldwin Radyngton
1392 William Staundon (1st term)
1393 John Hadle (2nd term)
1394 John Fresshe
1395 William More
1396 Adam Bamme Died in office
1397 Richard Whittington
Richard Whittington
Sir Richard Whittington was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington. Sir Richard Whittington was four times Lord Mayor of London, a Member of Parliament and a sheriff of London...

 Appointed by Richard II
1397 Richard Whittington
Richard Whittington
Sir Richard Whittington was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington. Sir Richard Whittington was four times Lord Mayor of London, a Member of Parliament and a sheriff of London...

 (2nd term; elected)
1398 Drugo Barentyn (1st term)
1399 Thomas Knollys
Thomas Knollys
Sir Thomas Knollys was Sheriff of London in 1395 and Lord Mayor of London in 1399 and 1410.-Biography:Lord-mayor Knollys was a member of the Grocers' Company. He directed in 1400 the rebuilding of the Guildhall, and he also rebuilt St. Antholin's Church in Watling Street, where he was buried with...

 (1st term)
1400 John Fraunceys


15th century

Elected Name
1401 John Shadworth
1402 John Walcote
1403 William Askham
William Askham
-Career:Askham was an apprentice of the famous City of London fishmonger and Lord Mayor Sir William Walworth. He prospered in his trade and eventually followed in his master's footsteps as Sheriff of London in 1398 and Lord Mayor in 1403.-Coat of arms:...

1404 John Heende (2nd term)
1405 John Wodecok
1406 Richard Whittington
Richard Whittington
Sir Richard Whittington was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington. Sir Richard Whittington was four times Lord Mayor of London, a Member of Parliament and a sheriff of London...

 (3rd term)
1407 William Staundon (2nd term)
1408 Drugo Barentyn (2nd term)
1409 Richard Merlawe (1st term)
1410 Thomas Knollys
Thomas Knollys
Sir Thomas Knollys was Sheriff of London in 1395 and Lord Mayor of London in 1399 and 1410.-Biography:Lord-mayor Knollys was a member of the Grocers' Company. He directed in 1400 the rebuilding of the Guildhall, and he also rebuilt St. Antholin's Church in Watling Street, where he was buried with...

 (2nd term)
1411 Robert Chichele (1st term)
1412 William Walderne (1st term)
1413 William Crowmere (1st term)
1414 Thomas Fauconer
1415 Nicholas Wotton (1st term)
1416 Henry Barton
Henry Barton
Henry Barton was appointed Sheriff of London in 1406 and elected Lord Mayor of London in 1416....

 (1st term)
1417 Richard Merlawe (2nd term)
1418 William Sevenoke
1419 Richard Whittington
Richard Whittington
Sir Richard Whittington was a medieval merchant and politician, and the real-life inspiration for the pantomime character Dick Whittington. Sir Richard Whittington was four times Lord Mayor of London, a Member of Parliament and a sheriff of London...

 (4th term)
1420 William Cauntbrigge
1421 Robert Chichele (2nd term)
1422 William Walderne (2nd term)
1423 William Crowmere (2nd term)
1424 John Michell (1st term)
1425 John Coventre
1426 John Reynwell
John Reynwell
-Career:Askham was a City of London fishmonger. He prospered in his trade, became a Sheriff of London in 1412, Lord Mayor of London in 1426 - 1427 and was knighted.-Coat of arms:Askham's arms were a chevron between three dolphins embowed...

1427 John Gedney (1st term)
1428 Henry Barton
Henry Barton
Henry Barton was appointed Sheriff of London in 1406 and elected Lord Mayor of London in 1416....

 (2nd term)
1429 William Estfeld (1st term)
1430 Nicholas Wotton
Nicholas Wotton
Nicholas Wotton was an English diplomat-Life:He was a son of Sir Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, and a descendant of Nicholas Wotton, lord mayor of London in 1415 and 1430, and member of parliament for the city from 1406 to 1429.He early became vicar of Boughton Malherbe and of Sutton...

 (2nd term)
1431 John Welles
1432 John Perneys
1433 John Brokley
1434 Robert Otele
1435 Henry Frowyk (1st term)
1436 John Michell (2nd term)
1437 William Estfeld (2nd term)
1438 Stephen Broun (1st term)
1439 Robert Large
Robert Large
Robert Large was a London merchant and member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. He was served as one of the Mercers' four yearly wardens in 1427, was sheriff of London in 1430-1431. In 1437/8 he was the wealthy master to whom the young William Caxton was apprenticed. Robert Large also served...

1440 John Paddesle
1441 Robert Clopton
1442 John Hatherle
1443 Thomas Catworth
1444 Henry Frowyk (2nd term)
1445 Simon Eyre
1446 John Olney
1447 John Gedney (2nd term)
1448 Stephen Broun (2nd term)
1449 Thomas Chalton
1450 Nicholas Wyfold

Elected Name
1451 William Gregory
1452 Geoffrey Feldynge
1453 John Norman
John Norman, Lord Mayor of London (1453)
John Norman was a 15th century draper, sheriff, alderman and for a term the Lord Mayor of London . He is known as being the first lord mayor to take a boat to Westminster to pledge his allegiance...

1454 Stephen Forster
1455 William Marowe
1456 Thomas Canynges
Thomas Canynges
Thomas Canynges was Lord Mayor of London in 1456-7, having been elected Alderman for Aldgate ward in 1445, and was a Grocer.-Background:...

1457 Geoffrey Boleyn
Geoffrey Boleyn
Sir Geoffrey Boleyn was a London merchant and Lord Mayor.-Life:Geoffrey Boleyn, the son of Sir Thomas Boleyn and Alice Bracton, was a wealthy London mercer. He served as a Sheriff of London in 1447, as alderman of the City of London in 1452, and Lord Mayor of London in 1457/8, and was knighted by...

1458 Thomas Scott
1459 William Hulyn
1460 Richard Lee (1st term)
1461 Hugh Wiche
1462 Thomas Cooke
1463 Matthew Philip
1464 Ralph Josselyn (1st term)
1465 Ralph Verney
1466 John Young
1467 Thomas Oulegrave
1468 William Taillour
William Taillour
Sir William Taillour sometimes spelt Taylor or Taylour was a wealthy grocer and Alderman who became Lord Mayor of London in 1468 ....

1469 Richard Lee
Richard Lee
Richard Lee may refer to:*Richard Lee , herald and Clarenceux King of Arms in the reign of Elizabeth I of England*Sir Richard Lee , British military engineer...

 (2nd term)
1470 John Stockton
1471 William Edward
1472 Sir William Hampton
1473 John Tate
1474 Robert Drope
1475 Robert Bassett or Bessett
1476 Sir Ralph Josselyn (2nd term)
1477 Humphrey Hayford
1478 Sir Richard Gardiner
Richard Gardiner
Sir Richard Gardiner, Knight, was, in 1478, Lord Mayor of London. He was Alderman of Walbrook Ward, and had been Sheriff of the City of London in 1469....

1479 Sir Bartholomew James
1480 John Browne
1481 William Haryot
1482 Sir Edmund Shaa
Edmund Shaa
Sir Edmund Shaa was a goldsmith, Sheriff of London in 1475 and Lord Mayor of London in 1482. Shaa lent money to Edward IV and, as mayor , was extensively involved in the coronation of Edward IV’s brother Richard III...

1483 Robert Billesden (or Billesdon)
1484 Thomas Hill (died in office)
1485 Sir William Stokker (died in office)
1485 John Warde
1485 Sir Hugh Bryce
1486 Henry Colet (1st term)
1487 William Horne
Sir William Whorne
Sir William Whorne was Lord Mayor of London in 1487. He is sometimes also reported as William Horne or William Littlebury.He erected a house, Whorne's Place, on the north bank of the River Medway at Cuxton, Kent, between Halling and Strood...

 (né Littlebury)
1488 Robert Tate
1489 William White
1490 John Mathewe (first bachelor Mayor)
1491 Hugh Clopton
Hugh Clopton
Hugh Clopton was a Lord Mayor of the City of London.He was born at Clopton House, just outside Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.He was appointed a Sheriff of London in 1487 and elected Lord Mayor of London for 1491....

1492 Sir William Martyn
1493 Ralp Astry
1494 Richard Chawry
1495 Sir Henry Colet (2nd term)
1496 John Tate  (1st term)
1497 William Purchase
1498 Sir John Percyvale
1499 Nicholas Ailwyn
1500 William Remyngton


16th century

Elected Name
1501 Sir John Shaa
1502 Bartholomew Rede
1503 Sir William Capel
William Capel
William Capel was Lord Mayor of London and an MP.He was a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, served as Sheriff of the City of London for 1496 and was elected was elected Lord Mayor in 1503. He was elected a member of Parliament for the City of London from 1511 to 1515.His mansion stood...

 (1st term)
1504 John Wynger
1505 Thomas Kneseworth
1506 Sir Richard Haddon (1st term)
1507 William Browne Died in office
1508 Sir Lawrence Aylmer
1508 Stephen Jenyns
Stephen Jenyns
Sir Stephen Jenyns was a wool merchant from Wolverhampton who became Lord Mayor of London.He was a Sheriff of London in 1499, before becoming Lord Mayor in 1509. He founded Wolverhampton Grammar School in 1512.-References:...

 Wool merchant
1509 Sir Thomas Bradbury
Thomas Bradbury
-Life:Bradbury was born in Yorkshire, and was educated for the congregational ministry Attercliffe Academy; Oliver Heywood gave him books. He preached his first sermon on 14 June 1696, and went to reside as assistant and domestic tutor with Thomas Whitaker, minister of the independent congregation,...

1510 Sir William Capel (2nd term)
1510 Henry Kebyll
1511 Roger Achleley
1512 William Copynger
1513 Sir Richard Haddon (2nd term)
1513 William Browne Died in office
1514 Sir John Tate (2nd term)
1514 George Monoux
George Monoux
Sir George Monoux , born in Walthamstow, Essex, England, was made Sheriff of London in 1509 and became the Lord Mayor of London in 1514.On 15 June 1527 Monoux purchased land for almshouses and a school in Walthamstow...

1515 William Boteler
1516 John Rest
1517 Thomas Exmewe
Thomas Exmewe
Sir Thomas Exmewe was born in Ruthin, Denbighshire c. 1454 and was elected Sheriff of London in 1509 and Lord Mayor of London in 1517. He became the first Lord Mayor of London whose portrait is known to have been painted. The portrait is now in the collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery and has...

1518 Thomas Mirfyn
1519 James Yarford
1520 John Brugge
1521 John Milborne
1522 John Mundy
John Mundy (mayor)
Sir John Mundy was a London goldsmith and Lord Mayor of London.He was born in Wycomb, son of William Munday He purchased the manor of Markeaton in 1516 as well as Mackworth and Allestree, which are all now parts of Derby from Lord Audley....

 Later knighted
1523 Thomas Baldry
1524 William Bayley
1525 John Aleyn (1st term)
1526 Sir Thomas Semer
1527 James Spencer
1528 John Rudstone
1529 Ralph Dodmer
1530 Thomas Pargeter
1531 Nicholas Lambarde
1532 Stephen Pecocke
1533 Christopher Ascue
1534 Sir John Champneys
1535 Sir John Aleyn (2nd term)
1536 Ralph Warren
Ralph Warren (Lord Mayor)
Sir Ralph Warren was twice Lord Mayor of London, for the first time in 1536 and the second in 1543.Sir Ralph was son of Sir Thomas Warren of Fering, Essex and grandson of William Warren....

 (1st term)
1537 Sir Richard Gresham
Richard Gresham
Sir Richard Gresham was an English merchant, Lord Mayor of London, and member of parliament. He was the father of Sir Thomas Gresham.-Family:...

1538 William Forman
1539 Sir William Hollyes
William Hollyes
Sir William Holles rose from apprenticeship to a mercer to become master warden of his company and Lord Mayor of London.He was the son of Thomas Holles of Stoke, Coventry....

1540 William Roche
1541 Michael Dormer
1542 John Cotes
1543 William Bowyer
1544 Sir Ralph Warren (2nd term)
1544 William Laxton
1545 Sir Martin Bowes
Martin Bowes
Sir Martin Bowes , was a sixteenth-century English politician.Bowes made a career at the Royal Mint, as a master-worker and under-treasurer, and personally contributed to the debasement of English currency. He was a Sheriff of London for 1540 and the Lord Mayor of London for 1545...

1546 Henry Huberthorn
1547 Sir John Gresham
John Gresham
Sir John Gresham was an English merchant, courtier and financier who worked for King Henry VIII of England, Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell. He was Lord Mayor of London and founded Gresham's School.-Life:...

1548 Henry Amcotts
1549 Sir Rowland Hill
Rowland Hill (MP)
Sir Rowland Hill, of Soulton was the first Protestant Lord Mayor of London. He was a merchant, statesman and philanthropist.-Early Life:...

 First Protestant Lord Mayor
1550 Sir Andrew Judde

Elected Name
1551 Richard Dobbis
1552 Sir George Barne II
George Barne II
Sir George Barne II was the Sheriff of London between 1545–1546, Lord Mayor of London in 1552, Alderman of the London wards Portsoken between 1542–1546 and Coleman Street between 1546–1558, a chief proponent of trade with Russia, and son of George Barne, a citizen of London and alderman...

1553 Thomas Whyte
1554 John Lyon
1555 Sir William Garrard
William Garrard
Sir William Garrard was a merchant of London and a royal financier.-Early life:Garrard was born in 1518, the son of John Garrard, a grocer and descendant of Sir Simon Attegare; Attegare being origin of the surname Garrard. He grew up in the parish of St. Magnus the Martyr near London Bridge...

1556 Thomas Offley
1557 Thomas Curtes
1558 Sir Thomas Leigh
1559 Sir William Huett
1560 Sir William Chester Stepson of John Milborne (1521)
1561 William Harpur
William Harpur
Sir William Harpur was a merchant from Bedford who moved to London, amassed a large fortune, and became Lord Mayor of London. In 1566 he and his wife Dame Alice gave an endowment to support certain charities including education...

1562 Thomas Lodge
Thomas Lodge (Lord Mayor of London)
Sir Thomas Lodge , was lord mayor of London.-Life:Lodge was the son of William Litleton, alias Lodge, of Cresset in Shropshire, born at Cound in Shropshire. He became a member of the Grocers' Company, serving the office of warden in 1548, and of master in 1559...

1563 John Whyte
1564 Richard Malorye
1565 Richard Champyon
1566 Christopher Draper
1567 Roger Martyn
1568 Thomas Rowe
1569 Alexander Avenon
1570 Rowland Heyward (1st term)
1571 William Allen
1572 Lionel Duckett
Lionel Duckett
Lionel Duckett was one of the Merchant adventurers of the City of London. He was four times Master of the Mercers' Company, and Lord Mayor of London ....

 Mercer
1573 Sir John Rivers
John Rivers
Sir John Rivers was born to Richard Rivers, steward of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham's lands. Alternate spelling includes John Ryvers....

1574 James Hawes
1575 Ambrose Nicholas
1576 John Langley
1577 Thomas Ramsay
1578 Richard Pype
1579 Nicholas Woodroffe
1580 John Branche
1581 James Harvye
1582 Thomas Blanke
1583 Edward Osborne
Edward Osborne
Sir Edward Osborne , was one of the principal merchants of London in the later sixteenth century, and Lord Mayor of London in 1583.-Early life:Osborne was the eldest son of Richard Osborne of Ashford, Kent, by his wife, Jane Broughton...

1584 Thomas Pullyson
Thomas Pullyson
Thomas Pullyson was an English politician and Lord Mayor of London.He was Sheriff of London in 1574 and then Lord Mayor for 1584, during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was succeeded by Wolstan Dixie....

1585 Wolstan Dixie
Wolstan Dixie
Sir Wolstan Dixie, , was a merchant and administrator, and Lord Mayor of London in 1585.-Life:He was the son of Thomas Dixie and Anne Jephson, who lived at Catworth in Huntingdonshire. Wolstan was the fourth son of his father, and went into business...

1586 Sir George Barne III
George Barne III
Sir George Barne III was a prominent merchant and public official from London during the reign of Elizabeth I, and the son of Sir George Barne II, and Alice Brooke.-Life:...

1587 Sir George Bonde
1588 Martin Calthorp
1589 Richard Martin
Richard Martin (Lord Mayor of London)
Sir Richard Martin was an English goldsmith and Master of the Mint who served as Sheriff and twice as Lord Mayor of the City of London during the reign of Elizabeth I.-Early career:...

  (1st term)
1589 John Harte
1590 Sir John Allot Died in office
1591 Sir Rowland Heyward (2nd term)
1591 William Webbe
1592 Sir William Rowe
1593 Cuthbert Buckell
1594 Sir Richard Martin (2nd term)
1594 John Spencer
1595 Stephen Slanye
1596 Thomas Skinner
Thomas Skinner (Lord Mayor of London, 1596)
Thomas Skinner was a master of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers and a London Alderman. He was elected Sheriff in 1587 and Lord Mayor of London in 1596...

 Died in office
1596 Henry Billingsley
Henry Billingsley
Sir Henry Billingsley was Lord Mayor of London and the first translator of Euclid into English.-Early Life:He was a son of William Billingsley, haberdasher and assaymaster of London, and his wife, Elizabeth Harlowe. He entered St...

1597 Richard Saltonstall
1598 Stephen Soame
Stephen Soame
Sir Stephen Soame was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601. He was Lord Mayor of London....

 Levant Company charter member
1599 Nicholas Mosley
Nicholas Mosley (mayor)
Sir Nicholas Mosley , also spelt Mosly and Moseley, was a manufacturer of woollen cloth, lord of the manor of Manchester, and Lord Mayor of London....

1600 William Ryder


17th century

Elected Name
1601 Sir John Garrard Haberdasher
1602 Robert Lee
Robert Lee (Lord Mayor)
Sir Robert Lee was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1602.Lee was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. On 18 December 1593, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Dowgate ward. He was Sheriff of London from 1594 to...

1603 Sir Thomas Bennett
Thomas Bennett (Lord Mayor)
Sir Thomas Bennett was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1603.Bennett was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. On 7 February 1594, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Vintry ward. He was Sheriff of London in 1594 to 1595...

1604 Sir Thomas Lowe
Thomas Lowe (Lord Mayor)
Sir Thomas Lowe was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1606 and 1622. He was an alderman of the City of London and became Lord Mayor of London in 1604....

 Haberdasher
1605 Sir Leonard Holliday
Leonard Holliday
Sir Leonard Holliday was a founder of the East India Company, and a Lord Mayor of London.-Life:...

 Merchant Taylor
1606 Sir John Watts
John Watts (merchant)
Sir John Watts was an English merchant and shipowner, active in the East India Company and Virginia Company and Lord Mayor of London in 1606.-Life:...

1607 Sir Henry Rowe
Henry Rowe (Lord Mayor)
Sir Henry Rowe was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1607.Rowe was the son of Sir Thomas Rowe who was Lord Mayor from 1568 to 1569 and grandson of Sir John Gresham, Lord Mayor from 1547 to 1548....

1608 Sir Humphrey Weld
Humphrey Weld
Humphrey Weld was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1608.Weld was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. On 9 May 1598, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Farringdon Within ward. He was Sheriff of London from 1599 to 1600....

1609 Sir Thomas Cambell
Thomas Cambell
Sir Thomas Cambell was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1609.Cambell was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. He was auditor for the city from 1584 to 1586, from 1588 to 1590 and from 1596 to 1598. He was a member of the committee of...

1610 Sir William Craven
William Craven (Lord Mayor of London)
Sir William Craven was an English merchant, Lord Mayor of London in 1610 . It has been suggested that the story of Dick Whittington is based on Craven's career, and he is sometime referred to as "Aptrick's Dick Whittington".-Life:He was the second son of William Craven and Beatrix, daughter of...

1611 Sir James Pemberton
James Pemberton
Sir James Pemberton was an English goldsmith who was Lord Mayor of London in 1611.Pemberton was born in Wrightington, probably the son of a farmer of Heskin, Eccleston, Lancashire. He went to London in 1567 to take an apprenticeship with Francis Heaton...

1612 Sir John Swynnerton
John Swynnerton
Sir John Swynnerton was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1611. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1612....

1613 Sir Thomas Myddelton
Thomas Myddelton
Sir Thomas Myddelton was the fourth son of Richard Myddelton, Governor of Denbigh, and Jane Dryhurst.As a youth, he was apprenticed to a grocer in London, and made his fortune in trade...

1614 Sir Thomas Hayes
Thomas Hayes (Lord Mayor)
Sir Thomas Hayes was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1614.Hayes was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. On 22 December 1603 he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Bishopsgate ward. He was knighted on 26 July 1603. He was...

1615 Sir John Jolles
John Jolles
Sir John Jolles was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1615. John married Alice the daughter of Richard Wright of London on 1 December 1572 at All Hallows, Lombard Street, London....

1616 John Leman
John Leman
Sir John Leman was a tradesman from Beccles, England who became Lord Mayor of London.-Career:Leman's business interests grew across the district of Waveney, which spans the Norfolk-Suffolk border. In the 1580s he moved to London and extended his business interests to trading in dairy products...

1617 George Bolles
George Bolles
Sir George Bolles or Bolle was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1617.Bolles was from Gosberton in Lincolnshire. He became a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1602 to 1607,...

1618 Sir Sebastion Harvey
1619 Sir William Cockayne
William Cockayne
Sir William Cockayne , London, England, was a seventeenth-century London merchant, alderman, and, in 1619, Lord Mayor.-Life:...

1620 Sir Francis Jones
Francis Jones (Lord Mayor)
Francis Jones was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1620.Jones was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. On 18 July 1610, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Aldgate ward. He was Sheriff of London for the period 1610...

1621 Edward Barkham
Edward Barkham (Lord Mayor)
Sir Edward Barkham was and English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1621.Barkham was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers. He was Master of the Leathersellers Company for 1605 to 1606, and for 1608 to 1609. On 28 February 1611, he was elected...

1622 Peter Probie
Peter Probie
Sir Peter Probie was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at times between 1593 and 1598. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1622....

1623 Martin Lumley
Martin Lumley (Lord Mayor)
Sir Martin Lumley was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1623.Lumley was a grandson of a Genoese who settled in England in the time of King Henry VIII. He was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. On 15 September 1614 he was elected an...

1624 John Gore
John Gore (Lord Mayor)
Sir John Gore was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1624.Gore was a son of Gerard Gore, alderman of the City of London. He was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. He was elected Sheriff of London in 1614 but did not take office...

1625 Allan Cotton
Allan Cotton
Sir Allan Cotton was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1625.Cotton was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. On 9 July 1616 he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Dowgate ward. He was Sheriff of London and Master of the Drapers...

1626 Cuthbert Hacket
Cuthbert Hacket
Sir Cuthbert Hacket was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1626.Hacket was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Dyers. On 26 September 1616 he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Portsoken ward. He was Sheriff of London for the year...

1627 Hugh Hamersley
Hugh Hamersley
Sir Hugh Hamersley was a 17th century merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1627.-Business interests:...

1628 Sir Richard Deane
Richard Deane (Lord Mayor)
Sir Richard Deane was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1628.Deane was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Skinners. He was Sheriff of London from 1619 to 1620 and was Master of the Skinners Company in 1619. On 17 February 1620, he was elected an...

1629 Sir James Cambell
1630 Sir Robert Ducie, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Ducie, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Ducie, 1st Baronet was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1631. He was banker to King Charles I.Ducie was the eldest surviving son of Henry Ducie, merchant of London and his wife Mary Hardy. He was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of...

1631 George Whitmore
George Whitmore (Lord Mayor)
Sir George Whitmore was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1631. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....

1632 Nicholas Rainton
Nicholas Rainton
Sir Nicholas Rainton was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1632.Rainton was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. He was elected Sheriff of London in 1617 but did not serve immediately. On 22 June 1621 he was elected an alderman of...

1633 Ralph Freeman
Ralph Freeman (Lord Mayor)
Ralph Freeman was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1633.Freeman was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers. He was on the committee of the East India Company from 1608 to 1611 and from 1612 to 1615...

1634 Thomas Moulson
Thomas Moulson
Sir Thomas Moulson , an alderman and member of the Grocers' Company, was a Sheriff of London in 1624 and Lord Mayor of London in 1634....

1634 Robert Parkhurst
Robert Parkhurst (Lord Mayor)
Sir Robert Parkhurst was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London.Parkhurst was the son of Henry Parkhurst and his wife Alice Hills. He was a member of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers and became an Alderman of the City of London. In 1628, he acquired estates at Pyrford...

1635 Christopher Clitherow
Christopher Clitherow
Sir Christopher Clitherow was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1635....

1636 Edward Bromfield
Edward Bromfield
Sir Edward Bromfield was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1636.Bromfield was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers. He was Master of the Leathersellers Company from 1625 to 1626. On 14 March 1626 he was elected an alderman of the...

1637 Richard Venn
Richard Venn
Sir Richard Venn or Fenn was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1637.Venn was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1619 to 1626 and Master of the Haberdashers Company from...

 (aka Fenn)
1638 Sir Maurice Abbot
Maurice Abbot
Sir Maurice Abbot was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1626. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1638....

1639 Henry Garraway
Henry Garraway
Sir Henry Garraway was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1639.Garaway was the son of Sir William Garaway, farmer of the customs. Garraway was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Drapers...

1640 Sir William Acton, 1st Baronet
Sir William Acton, 1st Baronet
Sir William Acton, 1st Baronet was an English merchant who was elected Lord Mayor of London but never took office.Acton was the son of Richard Acton of London. He was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. On 12 February 1628 he was elected an...

 Elected but displaced by Parliament
1640 Sir Edmund Wright
Edmund Wright (Lord Mayor)
Sir Edmund Wright was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London.Wright was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. On 23 June 1629 he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Cordwainer ward. He was Sheriff of London in 1629 and 1630...

1641 Sir Richard Gurney, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Gurney, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Gurney, 1st Baronet was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....

1642 Isaac Penington
1643 Sir John Wollaston
John Wollaston (Lord Mayor)
Sir John Wollaston was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1643.Wollaston was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. He was deputy-governor of the Irish Society from 1633 to 1634 and from 1636 to 1637. He was Sheriff of London from 1638 to...

1644 Thomas Atkins
Thomas Atkins (Lord Mayor)
Thomas Atkins was Lord Mayor of London and an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and from 1647 to 1653 and was Lord Mayor of London in 1644. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War....

1645 Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet was the Lord Mayor of the City of London and a Member of Parliament for the City of London from 1654–1655 and 1656-1658.-Early life:...

1646 Sir John Gayre
John Gayre
John Gayre or Gayer was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1646.Gayre was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers. He was one of the Court Assistants from 1617 to 1618, from 1622 to 1623, and from 1624 to 1626...

1647 John Warner
John Warner (Lord Mayor)
John Warner was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1647.Warner was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. He was Sheriff of London from 1639 to 1640. On 12 March 1640, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Queenhithe ward. From...

1648 Abraham Reynardson
Abraham Reynardson
Abraham Reynardson was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1649.Reynardson was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. He was a member of the committe of the East India Company from 1630 to 1631 and a Court Assistant from 1630 to 1632...

 Deposed, April 1649
1649 Thomas Andrewes
Thomas Andrewes
Sir Thomas Andrewes was a London financier who supported the parliamentary cause during the English Civil Wars, and sat as a commissioner at the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I. During the Third English Civil War, as Lord Mayor of London, he made sure that there was no trouble in...

1649 Thomas Foot
1650 Thomas Andrewes
Thomas Andrewes
Sir Thomas Andrewes was a London financier who supported the parliamentary cause during the English Civil Wars, and sat as a commissioner at the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I. During the Third English Civil War, as Lord Mayor of London, he made sure that there was no trouble in...


Elected Name
1651 John Kendricke
1652 John Fowke
John Fowke
John Fowke was an English merchant and politician. He served as a Sheriff of London for 1644 and Lord Mayor of London for 1652.He was the Member of Parliament for City of London 1661 - 1662.-Early life:...

1653 Thomas Vyner
1654 Christopher Pack
1655 John Dethick
1656 Robert Tichborne
Robert Tichborne
Sir Robert Tichborne , was an English soldier who fought in the English Civil War and a regicide of Charles I.Before the war he was a linen-draper by trade. In 1643 he was a captain in the London trained bands. He was lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1647. He was an extreme republican and...

1657 Richard Chiverton
1658 Sir John Ireton
John Ireton
John Ireton was Lord Mayor of London in 1658 and brother of General Henry Ireton.John Ireton was knighted by Oliver Cromwell, and purchased the estate of Radcliffe-on-Soar, in Nottinghamshire from Colonel Hutchinson...

1659 Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Allen, 1st Baronet also spelt Aleyn or Alleyn, was an English politician and grocer.He was the son of William Aleyn and his wife Elizabeth Compton, daughter of William Compton. Allen was alderman of Cheap Ward from 1652 until 1660 and subsequently of Aldgate Ward until 1679...

1660 Sir Richard Browne, Bt
1661 Sir John Frederick
John Frederick (Lord Mayor)
Sir John Frederick was an English merchant, MP and Lord Mayor of London.Frederick was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons. On 22 September 1653, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Vintry ward...

1662 Sir John Robinson, Bt
Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London
Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet, of London was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1667. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1662....

1663 Sir Anthony Bateman
1664 Sir John Lawrence
1665 Sir Thomas Bloodworth
Thomas Bloodworth
Sir Thomas Bloodworth was Lord Mayor of London from October 1665 to October 1666. His inaction during the early stages of the Great Fire of London was widely criticized as one of the causes for the great extent of the damage to the city.Prior to his time as mayor, Bloodworth was a wealthy...

1666 Sir William Bolton
1667 Sir William Peake
William Peake
William Peake , painter and printseller, was the son of the painter Robert Peake the Elder, and father of the printseller and royalist army officer, Sir Robert Peake....

1668 Sir William Turner
1669 Sir Samuel Starling
1670 Sir Richard Ford
Richard Ford
Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.-Early...

1671 Sir George Waterman
1672 Sir Robert Hanson
1673 Sir William Hooker
1674 Sir Robert Viner, 1st Baronet
1675 Sir Joseph Sheldon
1676 Sir Thomas Davies
1677 Sir Francis Chaplin
Francis Chaplin
Sir Francis Percy Drummond Chaplin served as administrator for the British South Africa Company in Southern Rhodesia from 1914 to 1923. He succeeded William Milton....

1678 Sir James Edwards
1679 Sir Robert Clayton
Robert Clayton
Sir Robert Clayton was a British merchant banker, politician and Lord Mayor of London.Robert Clayton was born in Northamptonshire, England. He became an apprentice to his uncle, a London scrivener, where he met a fellow apprentice, Alderman John Morris...

1680 Sir Patience Ward
1681 Sir John Moore
1682 Sir William Prichard
1683 Sir Henry Tulse
Henry Tulse (Lord Mayor)
Sir Henry Tulse was an alderman of the City of London and was Lord Mayor of London in 1684.Tulse was elected alderman for Bread Street Ward in the City of London in 1673. He was knighted at the Guildhall on 18 October 1673. In 1674 he was Sheriff of London. He became Lord Mayor in 1684.Tulse...

1684 Sir James Smyth
1685 Sir Robert Geffrye
Robert Geffrye
Sir Robert Geffrye was an English merchant and Lord Mayor of London.He was born at Landrake, near Saltash, Cornwall and moved to London where he became an eminent East India merchant and was knighted in 1673...

1686 Sir John Peake
John Peake
John Morris Peake was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the British field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played all five matches as forward.-External links:*...

1687 Sir John Shorter
1688 Sir John Eyles
1688 Sir John Chapman
1689-1690 Thomas Pilkington
1691 Sir Thomas Stampe
1692 Sir John Fleet
1693 Sir William Ashurst
William Ashurst
William "Bill" Ashurst was an English football player who played for Lincoln City and Notts County, as well as the English national side. He later played for Newark Town and Bestwood Colliery.-External links:**...

1694 Sir Thomas Lant
Thomas Lant
Thomas Lant was a draftsman and long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Lant was born in Gloucester and was one of seven children of Thomas and Mary Lant. When Lant was twelve years old, he became a page to Richard Cheney, the Bishop of Gloucester. When Cheney died in 1579,...

1695 Sir John Houblon
John Houblon
Sir John Houblon was the first Governor of the Bank of England from 1694 to 1697.-Biography:Sir John was the third son of James Houblon, a London merchant, and his wife, Mary Du Quesne, daughter of Jean Du Quesne, the younger...

1696 Sir Edward Clarke
1697 Sir Humphrey Edwin
Humphrey Edwin
-Early life:Edwin was born at Hereford, the only son of William Edwin, twice mayor of Hereford, by his wife, Anne, of the family of Mansfield. He came to London, and in or before 1670 married Elizabeth, the daughter of Samuel Sambrooke, a wealthy London merchant of the ward of Bassishaw, and sister...

1698 Sir Francis Child
Francis Child
Francis Child may refer to:*Francis Child , Lord Mayor of London* Francis James Child...

1699 Sir Richard Levett
Richard Levett
Sir Richard Levett , Sheriff, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London, was one of the first directors of the Bank of England, an adventurer with the London East India Company and the proprietor of the trading firm Sir Richard Levett & Company. He had homes at Kew and in London's Cripplegate, close by...

1700 Sir Thomas Abney
Thomas Abney
Sir Thomas Abney was Lord Mayor of London.Abney was born in Willesley, which at the time was in Derbyshire but is now in Leicestershire. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, where a house is named after him....



18th century

Elected Name
1701 Sir William Gore
1702 Sir Samuel Dashwood
1703 Sir John Parsons
1704 Sir Chnen Buckingham
1705 Sir Thomas Rawlinson
1706 Sir Robert Bedingfeld
1707 Sir William Withers
William Withers
Sir William Withers was Lord Mayor of London from 1707 to 1708.-Family background:He was born in 1657, a descendant of Sir Thomas Wyther. Sir William Withers' father was believed to be the first family member to spell the name Wyther as Withers.Withers married Margaret Hayes, daughter of Thomas...

1708 Sir Charles Duncombe
1709 Sir Samuel Garrard, 4th Baronet
1710 Sir Gilbert Heathcote (Later Bt)
1711 Sir Robert Beachcroft
1712 Sir Richard Hoare
Richard Hoare
Sir Richard Hoare was the founder of C. Hoare & Co, one of the United Kingdom's oldest private banks.-Career:Having been raised near Smithfield Market in London, Richard Hoare began his working life apprenticed to a goldsmith. He was granted the Freedom of the Goldsmiths' Company on 5 July 1672....

1713 Sir Samuel Stanier
1714 Sir William Humfreys
1715 Sir Charles Peers
1716 Sir James Bateman
1717 Sir William Lewen
1718 Sir John Ward
1719 Sir George Thorold, Bt
1720 Sir John Fryer, Bt
1721 Sir William Stewart
1722 Sir Gerard Conyers
1723 Sir Peter Delmé
Peter Delmé
Sir Peter Delmé was a notable English figure in commerce and banking in the early 18th century.Delmé was the third son of Pierre Delmé and Sibella Nightingale...

1724 Sir George Merttins
1725 Sir Francis Forbes
1726 Sir John Eyles, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Eyles, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Eyles, 2nd Baronet of Gidea Hall, Essex was a British financier. Eyles was the eldest surviving son of Sir Francis Eyles, 1st Baronet. He was married to his cousin, Mary Haskin Styles. Together they had two children, a girl and a boy...

1727 Sir Edward Becher
1728 Sir Robert Baylis
1729 Sir Robert Brocas
1730 Humphrey Parsons  (1st term)
1731 Francis Child
1732 John Barber
1733 Sir William Billers
1734 Sir Edward Bellamy
1735 Sir John Williams
1736 Sir John Thompson
1737 Sir John Barnard
John Barnard (British politician)
Sir John Barnard was a British Whig politician and Lord Mayor of London.He was a son of John Barnard of London, a Quaker merchant, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Robert Payne of Play Hatch in Sonning on the border of Berkshire and Oxfordshire.He was a Sheriff of London in 1736 and elected Lord...

1738 Micajah Perry
1739 Sir John Salter
1740 Humphrey Parsons (2nd term); died in office
1741 Daniel Lambert
1741 Sir Robert Godschall
1742 George Heathcote
George Heathcote
George Heathcote was an eighteenth century English politician and philanthropist who was a Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London.He was a nephew of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Governor of the Bank of England...

1742 Robert Willimott
1743 Robert Westley
1744 Henry Marshall
1745 Richard Hoare
1746 William Benn
1747 Sir Robert Ladbroke
1748 Sir William Calvert
1749 Sir Samuel Pennant
Samuel Pennant
Sir Samuel Pennant was a Lord Mayor of London.He was appointed a Sheriff of London for 1745 and then elected Lord Mayor of London for 1749 but died the following year in office, and was succeeded by John Blachford. There is a monument to him in the church of St Michael Paternoster Royal.Sir...

 Died in office
1750 John Blachford
1750 Francis Cockayne

Elected Name
1751 Thomas Winterbottom
1752 Robert Alsop
1752 Crisp Gascoyne
1753 Edward Ironside
1753 Thomas Rawlinson
1754 Stephen T. Janssen
1755 Slingsby Bethell
1756 Marshe Dickinson
1757 Sir Charles Asgill, Bt
Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet , merchant banker, was the third son of Henry Asgill, silkman, of St Clement Danes, Middlesex and was educated at Westminster School....

1758 Sir Richard Glyn, Bt
Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Ewell
Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet was a British banker and politician.Together with Joseph Vere and Thomas Hallifax he founded the bank of Vere, Glyn & Hallifax, which evolved into Williams & Glyn's Bank....

1759 Sir Thomas Chitty
1760 Sir Matthew Blakiston
1761 Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bt
Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet
Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet , of Lee Place in Kent, was an English merchant and banker who served as a Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London....

1762 William Beckford
William Beckford (politician)
William Beckford was a well-known political figure in 18th century London, who twice held the office of Lord Mayor of London . His vast wealth came largely from his plantations in Jamaica...

 (1st term)
1763 William Bridgen
1764 Sir William Stephenson
1765 George Nelson
1766 Sir Robert Kite
Robert Kite
Robert Kite was knighted on October 16, 1760. Sir Robert was appointed Sheriff of London for 1761 and Lord Mayor of London for 1766.- References :* Shaw, William A. . London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906.* Graves, Lucia . cityoflondon.gov.uk...

1767 Thomas Harley
Thomas Harley
The Honourable Thomas Harley was a British politician.Harley was a younger son of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. He became an alderman of London, Sheriff of London in 1764 and Lord Mayor of London in 1767...

1768 Samuel Tumer
1769 William Beckford (2nd term)
1770 Barlow Trecothick
1770 Brass Crosby
Brass Crosby
Brass Crosby was an English radical lawyer, Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London.-Life:Brass Crosby was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1725. He qualified in law and came to London to practise his chosen profession. In 1758 he was elected to the City Council and elected 'lay' Sheriff in 1764...

1771 William Nash
1772 James Townsend
1773 Frederick Bull
1774 John Wilkes
John Wilkes
John Wilkes was an English radical, journalist and politician.He was first elected Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of voters—rather than the House of Commons—to determine their representatives...

1775 John Sawbridge
John Sawbridge
John Sawbridge was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1780.Sawbridge was the eldest son of John Sawbridge of Olantigh and his wife Elizabeth Wanley, daughter of George Wanley....

1776 Sir Thomas Hallifax
1777 Sir James Esdaile
James Esdaile (lord mayor)
Sir James Esdaile was the Lord Mayor of London in 1777. His grandfather was Baron d'Esdaile who fled from France in an attempt to avoid persecution by Louis XIV.He was Sheriff of London in 1767....

1778 Samuel Plumbe
1779 Brackley Kennett
Brackley Kennett
Brackley Kennett was a British merchant who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1779-1780. During his time in office the Gordon Riots broke out and his response to the rioting proved controversial...

1780 Sir Watkin Lewes
Watkin Lewes
Sir Watkin Lewes was a Welsh politician in England.Lewes was the second son of Reverend Watkin Lewes, Pen-Y-Benglog, Melinau, and Ann Williams, Treamlod , Pembrokeshire. He was educated in Shrewsbury School and in Magdalene College, Cambridge where he graduated in 1763...

1781 William Plomer
William Plomer
William Charles Franklyn Plomer CBE was a South African author, known as a novelist, poet and literary editor. He was educated mostly in the United Kingdom...

1782 Nathaniel Newnham
1783 Robert Peckham
1784 Richard Clark
1785 Thomas Wright
1786 Thomas Sainsbury
1787 John Burnell
1788 William Gill
1789 William Pickett
1790 John Boydell
John Boydell
John Boydell was an 18th-century British publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. He helped alter the trade imbalance between Britain and France in engravings and initiated a British tradition in the art form...

1791 John Hopkins
1792 Sir James Sanderson
1793 Paul le Mesurier
1794 Thomas Skinner
1795 Sir William Curtis, 1st Baronet
1796 Sir Brook Watson
Brook Watson
Sir Brook Watson, 1st Baronet was a British merchant, soldier, and later Lord Mayor of London, perhaps most famous as the subject of Watson and the Shark , a painting by John Singleton Copley which depicted a shark attack on Watson as a boy, as a result of which he lost his right leg below the...

1797 Sir John Anderson, Bt
1798 Sir Richard Glyn, Bt
Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, of Gaunt's House
Sir Richard Carr Glyn, 1st Baronet was a British banker and politician.Glyn was the son of Sir Richard Glyn, 1st Baronet, by his second wife Elizabeth...

1799 Harvey Christian Combe
Harvey Christian Combe
Harvey Christian Combe was an English Whig politician.He was Lord Mayor of London in 1799.At the 1796 general election he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the City of London. He held the seat for 21 years, until he resigned from the House of Commons in 1817 by taking the Chiltern Hundreds...

1800 Sir William Staines


19th century

Elected Name
1801 Sir John Eamer
1802 Charles Price
Sir Charles Price, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Price, 1st Baronet was a merchant in the City of London, Lord Mayor of London and politician.Price was the son of the Rev. Ralph Price, incumbent of Farnborough, Berkshire, and his wife Sarah Richardson. He was sent to the city of London, at a young age under the care of an uncle, who...

1803 John Perring
1804 Peter Perchard
1805 James Shaw
Sir James Shaw, 1st Baronet
Sir James Shaw, 1st Baronet , became Lord Mayor of London in 1805. From humble beginnings in a farming family in Ayrshire he became a successful merchant and politician; he was a relation of Robert Burns and used his wealth to support Burns's orphaned children...

1806 Sir William Leighton
1807 John Ansley
1808 Charles Flower
1809 Thomas Smith
1810 Joshua Smith
1811 Claudius Hunter
Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter, 1st Baronet
Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter, 1st Baronet , lawyer and Lord Mayor of London.-Biography:Hunter, who was born at Beech Hill, near Reading, 24 February 1775, was the youngest son of Henry Hunter of Beech Hill, Berkshire, a barrister, by Mary, third daughter of William Sloane, the great-nephew of Sir...

1812 George Scholey
1813 William Domville
William Domville
William Domville was a leading Irish politician and barrister of the Restoration era. Due to the great trust which the Crown had in his ability, he remained Attorney General for Ireland throughout the reign of Charles II, and it has been argued that it was in his term of office that the Attorney...

1814 Samuel Birch
1815–1816 Matthew Wood
Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet
Sir Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet was a British Whig politician.-Life:Matthew Wood was the son of William Wood, a serge maker from Exeter and Tiverton, and his wife Catherine Cluse . He was educated briefly at Blundell's School, before being obliged to help his ailing father...

1817 Christopher Smith
1818 John Atkins
1819 George Bridges
1820 John Thomas Thorp
1821 Christopher Magnay
1822 William Heygate
1823 Robert Waithman
Robert Waithman
Robert Waithman , Lord Mayor of London, was born at Wrexham.After being employed for some time in a London linen draper's, he opened, about 1786, a draper's shop of his own, and made a considerable fortune. In 1818 he was returned to Parliament, as a liberal, for the City of London...

1824 John Garratt
1825 William Venables
1826 Anthony Brown
1827 Matthias Prime Lucas
1828 William Thompson
1829 John Crowder
1830-1831 John Key
Sir John Key, 1st Baronet
Sir John Key, 1st Baronet was a Whig politician in England.He was elected Sheriff of the City of London in 1824 and Lord Mayor of London for two years, from 1830 to 1832....

1832 Sir Peter Laurie
Peter Laurie
Sir Peter Laurie was a British politician who served as Lord Mayor of London.He was appointed Sheriff of the City of London for 1823 and elected Lord Mayor for 1832. From 1838 until his death, he was Chairman of the Union Bank. He also worked as a saddler, who supplied saddles for the Indian...

1833 Charles Farebrother
1834 Henry Winchester
1835 William Taylor Copeland
William Taylor Copeland
William Taylor Copeland, MP, Alderman was a British businessman and politician who served as Lord Mayor of London and a Member of Parliament.- Family and business :...

1836 Thomas Kelly
1837 John Cowan
John Cowan
John Cowan is an American soul music and progressive bluegrass vocalist and bass guitar player. He was the lead vocalist and bass player for the New Grass Revival...

1838 Samuel Wilson
1839 Sir Chapman Marshall
1840 Thomas Johnson
1841 John Pirie
John Pirie
Sir John Pirie was an alderman, and Lord Mayor , of the city of London. He was the largest shipbroker in London.In the 1830s he started to uphold Wakefield's principles and became a founding director, and one of the largest financiers, of the South Australian Company.He was also a director of the...

1842 John Humphery
1843 William Magnay
1844 Michael Gibbs
1845 John Johnson
1846 Sir George Carroll
1847 John Kinnersley Hooper
1848 Sir James Duke, 1st Baronet
Sir James Duke, 1st Baronet
Sir James Duke, 1st Baronet was a British Liberal Party politician. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1848–49, and sat in the House of Commons from 1837 to 1865....

1849 Thomas Farncomb
1850 John Musgrove

Elected Name
1851 William Hunter
1852 Thomas Challis
1853 Thomas Sidney
1854 Francis Moon
1855 David Salomons
David Salomons
Sir David Salomons, 1st Baronet was a leading figure in the 19th century struggle for Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom...

1856 Thomas Finnis
1857 Sir Robert Carden
1858 David Wire
1859 John Carter
1860-1861 William Cubitt
1862 William Rose
1863 William Lawrence
William Lawrence (London MP)
Sir William Lawrence was an English builder and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1865 and 1885....

1864 Warren Stormes Hale
Warren Stormes Hale
Warren Stormes Hale was Lord Mayor of London and founder of the City of London School.Born on 2 February 1791 he was orphaned and became an apprentice candlemaker or chandler; he was later twice Master of the Tallow Chandlers' Company....

1865 Benjamin Phillips
1866 Thomas Gabriel
1867 William Ferneley Allen
1868 James Lawrence
Sir James Lawrence, 1st Baronet
Sir James Clarke Lawrence, 1st Baronet was Lord Mayor of London and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885....

1869 Robert Besley
1870 Thomas Dakin
1871 Sills Gibbons
1872 Sir Sydney Waterlow
1873 Andrew Lusk
Sir Andrew Lusk, 1st Baronet
Sir Andrew Lusk, 1st Baronet was a Scottish born businessman and Liberal politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1885.Lusk was the son of John Lusk of Barr, Ayrshire and his wife Margaret Earl...

1874 David Stone
David Henry Stone
Alderman David Henry Stone born in 1812, died 26 February 1890. His family were the owners of a large amount of land near Lewes for at least three centuries. He was the nephew of Thomas Farncomb the Lord Mayor of London of 1849. Educated at St Olave's Grammar School, in Southwark...

1875 William Cotton
William James Richmond Cotton
Sir William James Richmond Cotton was an English merchant and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1885....

1876 Sir Thomas White
1877 Thomas Owden
1878 Sir Charles Whetham
1879 Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott
1880 William McArthur
William McArthur (1816-1887)
Sir William McArthur was an Irish businessman and Lord Mayor of London, and a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885....

1881 John Ellis
1882 Henry Knight
1883 Robert Fowler
Sir Robert Fowler, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler, 1st Baronet DL JP was an MP and Lord Mayor of London....

 (1st term)
1884 George Nottage (died in office)
1885 Robert Fowler
Sir Robert Fowler, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Nicholas Fowler, 1st Baronet DL JP was an MP and Lord Mayor of London....

 (2nd term)
1885 John Staples
1886 Sir Reginald Hanson
Reginald Hanson
Sir Reginald Hanson 1st Baronet, Kt, JP, DL, FSA was Lord Mayor of London and a British Conservative Party politician....

1887 Polydore de Keyser
Polydore de Keyser
Sir Polydore de Keyser , was a lawyer and the first Roman Catholic since the Reformation to be elected Lord Mayor of London . He was born in the Belgian city of Dendermonde, near Ghent, Belgium....

1888 James Whitehead
Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet
Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet DL was a British merchant and Liberal Party politician.-Early life:Whitehead was born at Bramhall, near Sedbergh in Yorkshire. He was educated at the grammar school in Appleby-in-Westmorland, and was apprenticed as a draper in Kendal. He made his way to Bradford...

1889 Sir Henry Isaacs
1890 Sir Joseph Savory, 1st Baronet
Sir Joseph Savory, 1st Baronet
Sir Joseph Savory, 1st Baronet was a Sheriff of London, Lord Mayor of London and MP.He was born in Clapton, London, the eldest son of Joseph Savory of Buckhurst Park, Berkshire and educated at Harrow School....

1891 David Evans
1892 Stuart Knill
1893 George Tyler
George Robert Tyler
Sir George Robert Tyler, 1st Baronet was a Baronet and Lord Mayor of London.-Career:Tyler was a founder of the firm of Venables, Tyler and Son, papermakers of 17 Queenhithe....

1894 Sir Joseph Renals
1895 Sir Walter Wilkin
1896 George Faudel-Phillips
1897 Lt. Col. Horatio Davies
Horatio Davies
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Horatio David Davies KCMG was a London businessman, politician, magistrate and a driving force behind the establishment of Pimms as an international brandname.-Early life:...

1898 Sir John Voce Moore
John Voce Moore
Sir John Voce Moore was an English businessman and Lord Mayor of London.He was born in Stockport in 1826, the son of James Moore.He founded a tea trading company at age 22 and retired as the senior partner of Moore Brothers Tea Merchants....

1899 Alfred Newton
1900 Frank Green


20th century

Elected Name
1901 Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale
Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale
Sir Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale, 1st Baronet, PC, KCVO, Bt was a distinguished public figure in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.He was born on 19 January 1849 and educated at Eton....

Grocer
Worshipful Company of Grocers
The Worshipful Company of Grocers is one of the 108 Livery Companies of the City of London. It is ranked second in the order of precedence of the Companies and, having been established in 1345, is one of the original Great Twelve City Livery Companies....

1902 Sir Marcus Samuel
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted
Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted JP , known as Sir Marcus Samuel, 1st Baronet between 1903 and 1921 and subsequently as The Lord Bearsted until 1925, was the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, a precursor to Royal Dutch Shell.-Career:Samuel was born into a Jewish family in...

1903 Sir James Ritchie
1904 John Pound
1905 Sir Walter Vaughan Morgan
1906 Sir William Treloar
William P. Treloar
Sir William Purdie Treloar, 1st Baronet , was a manufacturer and philanthropist and Lord Mayor of the City of London.-Career:...

1907 Sir John Bell
1908 Sir George Truscott
1909 Sir John Knill, Bt
1910 Sir Thomas V. Strong
1911 Sir Thomas B. Crosby
1912 Col. Sir David Burnett
1913 Sir Vansittart Bowater (later Bt)
1914 Colonel Sir Charles Johnston
1915 Col. Sir Charles Wakefield
1916 Sir William Dunn, Bt
William Henry Dunn
Sir William Henry Dunn, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician.Dunn was born in Clitheroe, in Lancashire. He was married to Ellen Pawle in 1885 and they had one son and a daughter....

1917 Charles Hanson
1918 Sir Horace Brooks Marshall
Horace Brooks Marshall, 1st Baron Marshall
Horace Brooks Marshall, 1st Baron Marshall of Chipstead KCVO PC was an English publisher and newspaper distributor and Lord Mayor of London, 1918–1919.Marshall was born in Streatham, Surrey, a suburb of London...

 (later Bt)
1919 Sir Edward Cooper
1920 James Roll
1921 Sir John Baddeley, Bt
Sir John Baddeley, 1st Baronet
Sir John James Baddeley, 1st Baronet JP was a British magistrate and baronet.-Background:He was the eldest son of John Baddeley and his wife Frances Beresford, fifth daughter of James Beresford...

1922 Edward C. Moore
1923 Colonel Sir Louis Newton
1924 Sir Alfred Bower
1925 Sir William Pryke
1926 Sir George R. Blades (later Bt)
1927 Sir Charles Batho
1928 Sir Kynaston Studd
Kynaston Studd
Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, 1st Baronet OBE , known as "JEK", was a British cricketer, businessman and Lord Mayor of London.-Family:...

1929 Sir William Waterlow (later Bt)
1930 Sir William P. Neal
1931 Sir Maurice Jenks
1932 Sir Percy Greenaway
1933 Sir Charles Collett
1934 Sir Stephen Killik
1935 Sir Percy Vincent
1936 Sir George Broadbridge
1937 Sir Harry Twyford
1938 Major Sir Frank Bowater
1939 Sir William Coxen
1940 Sir George Wilkinson
1941 Lt. Col. Sir John Laurie
1942 Sir Samuel Joseph
Sir Samuel Joseph, 1st Baronet
Sir Samuel George Joseph, 1st Baronet was the 615th Lord Mayor of London.-Career:Samuel Joseph made a name for himself when in 1908, together with his cousin, Sydney Gluckstein, he acquired C. W. Bovis & Co., then a local builder, and expanded it into a major construction business...

 (later Bt)
1943 Sir Frank Newson-Smith
1944 Sir Frank Alexander
1945 Sir Charles Davis
1946 Sir Bracewell Smith
Bracewell Smith
Sir Bracewell Smith, Bt was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.-Biography:Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, he attended Wesley Place Primary School in the town. He started as a pupil teacher and attended Leeds University before entering business...

1947 Sir Frederick Wells
1948 Sir George Aylwen
1949 Sir Frederick Rowland
1950 Denis Lowson (later Bt) Grocer
Worshipful Company of Grocers
The Worshipful Company of Grocers is one of the 108 Livery Companies of the City of London. It is ranked second in the order of precedence of the Companies and, having been established in 1345, is one of the original Great Twelve City Livery Companies....


Elected Name
1951 Sir Leslie Boyce
1952 Sir Rupert de la Bère, 1st Baronet
1953 Sir Noël Bowater, 2nd Baronet
1954 Harold W. S. Howard (later Bt)
1955 Cuthbert Ackroyd
1956 Sir Cullum Welch
1957 Sir Denis Truscott
1958 Sir Harold Gillett (later Bt)
1959 Sir Edmund Stockdale
1960 Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen
Bernard Waley-Cohen
Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, 1st Baronet , was a British businessman. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1960. He was educated at Clifton College where he was a member of Polacks....

Clothworkers
1961 Sir Frederick Alfred Hoare
1962 Sir Ralph Perring
1963 Sir James Harman
1964 Sir James Miller
1965 Sir Lionel Denny
1966 Sir Robert Bellinger
Robert Bellinger
Sir Robert Ian Bellinger, GBE was a British politician and Lord Mayor of London.Born in Gloucestershire, he was raised in Fulham, London where he attended All Saints church school. Following his father's death he started work at the age of 14 as an office boy...

Broderer
Worshipful Company of Broderers
The Worshipful Company of Broderers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. Broderers were workers in embroidery; the organization of Broderers existed in at least 1376, and was officially incorporated by a Royal Charter in 1561. As the craft of embroidery has lost its importance as a...

1967 Sir Gilbert Inglefield
1968 Sir Charles Trinder
1969 LtCol Sir Ian Bowater
Ian Frank Bowater
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Ian Frank Bowater, GBE, DSO, TD was Lord Mayor of London from 1969 to 1970, the youngest son of Sir Frank Bowater, 1st Baronet , and Ethel Anita Fryar.-Career:...

1970 Sir Peter Studd
Peter Malden Studd
Sir Peter Malden Studd GBE KCVO MA DSc DL - was an English cricketer and the 643rd Lord Mayor of London.-Biography:...

1971 Sir Edward Howard, 2nd Baronet
1972 Lord Mais
Alan Mais, Baron Mais
Alan Raymond Mais, Baron Mais, GBE, TD, ERD, JP was a British peer and former Lord Mayor of the City of London between 1972 and 1973....

1973 Sir Hugh Wontner
Hugh Wontner
Sir Hugh Walter Kingwell Wontner GBE, CVO, was an English hotelier and politician. He was managing director of the Savoy hotel group from 1941 to 1979 and its chairman from 1948 to 1984, continuing as president until his death. He was also chairman of the Savoy Theatre from 1948 until his death...

1974 Sir Murray Fox
1975 Sir Lindsay Ring
1976 Sir Robin Gillett
Robin Gillett
Sir Robin Danvers Penrose Gillett, 2nd Baronet, GBE, RD , was Lord Mayor of London 1976-77. He was also Gentleman Usher of the Purple Rod 1985 – 30 November 2000.-Family and education:...

1977 Sir Peter Vanneck
Peter Vanneck
Air Commodore Sir Peter Beckford Rutgers Vanneck, GBE, CB, AFC, AE, DL was a British Royal Navy officer, jet pilot, engineer, stockbroker and politician...

1978 Sir Kenneth Cork
Kenneth Cork
Sir Kenneth Russell Cork GBE was a British accountant and insolvency expert, and the Lord Mayor of London from 1978-1979. He is best known for chairing a major review of UK insolvency law .He was a partner in Cork Gully, a well-known firm of insolvency...

1979 Sir Peter Gadsden
Peter Gadsden
Sir Peter Drury Haggerston Gadsden, GBE, AC, JP was a Canadian born British chartered engineer and globe-trotting trader. He was the 652nd Lord Mayor of London in 1979 and 1980.-Background:...

1980 Sir Ronald Gardner-Thorpe
1981 Sir Christopher Leaver
1982 Sir Anthony Jolliffe
1983 Dame Mary Donaldson
Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington
Dorothy Mary Warwick, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, GBE DStJ , better known as Dame Mary Donaldson, was the first, and to date the only, female Lord Mayor of London ....

 
Gardener
Worshipful Company of Gardeners
The Worshipful Company of Gardeners is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. An organisation of Gardeners existed in the middle of the fourteenth century; it received a Royal Charter in 1605. The Company no longer exists as a regulatory authority for the sale of produce in London;...

1984 Sir Alan Traill Cutler
Worshipful Company of Cutlers
The Worshipful Company of Cutlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The trade of knife making and repairing was organised in the thirteenth century; the organisation received a Royal Charter later in 1416...

1985 Sir Allan Davis
1986 Sir David Rowe-Ham
1987 Sir Greville Spratt Ironmonger
Worshipful Company of Ironmongers
The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Ironmongers, who were originally known as the Ferroners, were incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1463...

1988 Sir Christopher Collett Glover
Worshipful Company of Glovers
The Worshipful Company of Glovers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. Glovers were originally classified as Cordwainers, but eventually separated to form their own organization in 1349. They received a Royal Charter of incorporation in 1639...

1989 Sir Hugh Bidwell  Grocer
Worshipful Company of Grocers
The Worshipful Company of Grocers is one of the 108 Livery Companies of the City of London. It is ranked second in the order of precedence of the Companies and, having been established in 1345, is one of the original Great Twelve City Livery Companies....

1990 Sir Alexander Michael Graham
1991 Sir Brian Jenkins  Merchant Taylor
Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors
The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors is one of the 108 Livery Companies of the City of London.The Company, originally known as the Guild and Fraternity of St...

1992 Sir Francis McWilliams  Engineer
Worshipful Company of Engineers
The Worshipful Company of Engineers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was founded and became a Livery Company in 1983 and was incorporated by Royal Charter in 2004...

1993 Sir Paul Newall Baker
Worshipful Company of Bakers
The Worshipful Company of Bakers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Bakers' Guild is known to have existed in the twelfth century. From the Corporation of London, the Guild received the power to enforce regulations for baking, known as the Assize of Bread and Ale. The...

1994 Sir Christopher Walford Playing Card Maker
Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards
The Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was incorporated by Royal Charter granted by Charles I with effect from 22 October 1628, and was granted Livery status on 27 November 1792 with a limit of a hundred members. On 21...

1995 Sir John Chalstrey Barber
Worshipful Company of Barbers
The Worshipful Company of Barbers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation's records date as early as 1308, recording Richard le Barber as the first to hold the office of Master....

1996 Sir Roger William Cork
1997 Sir Richard Nichols  Salter
Worshipful Company of Salters
The Worshipful Company of Salters is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, 9th in order of precedence. The Company originated as the Guild of Corpus Christi, which was granted a Royal Charter of incorporation in 1559...

1998 Lord Levene of Portsoken
Peter Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken
Peter Keith Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken KBE is chairman of NBNK Investments plc and was Lord Mayor of London 1998 to 1999.-Life:Lord Levene has enjoyed a long and varied career in business, government and banking...

 
Carman
Worshipful Company of Carmen
The Worshipful Company of Carmen is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. Carmen, or drivers of carts, caused upset in 1481. The King conscripted carts to carry his wine allowing rural carters to force food prices up. By offering to provide the King's carriage and clean the streets the...

1999 Sir Clive Martin
Clive Martin
Sir Clive Martin, OBE, DL, TD, is a British businessman and a former Lord Mayor of London from 1999-2000.Martin was born in London and educated at Haileybury and the London College of Printing....

 
Stationer and Newspaper Maker
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Stationers' Company was founded in 1403; it received a Royal Charter in 1557...

2000 Sir David Howard, 3rd Baronet
Howard Baronets
There have been two Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Howard, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extinct while one is still extant....

 
Gardener
Worshipful Company of Gardeners
The Worshipful Company of Gardeners is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. An organisation of Gardeners existed in the middle of the fourteenth century; it received a Royal Charter in 1605. The Company no longer exists as a regulatory authority for the sale of produce in London;...



21st century

Elected Name
2001 Sir Michael Oliver
Michael Oliver (Lord Mayor)
Sir James Michael Yorrick Oliver was an investment banker and Lord Mayor of London.Educated at Wellington College, he started his working life in Stockbrokers Kitcat & Aitken and became a member of the London Stock Exchange. He subsequently became both a partner of the firm and later Managing...

 
Ironmonger
Worshipful Company of Ironmongers
The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Ironmongers, who were originally known as the Ferroners, were incorporated under a Royal Charter in 1463...

2002 Sir Gavyn Arthur  Wax Chandler
Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers
The Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation was established in 1358 by the granting of by-laws and ordinances by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. New ordinances were issued in 1371...

2003 Sir Robert Finch
Robert Finch (Lord Mayor)
Sir Robert Finch is a British businessman, former lawyer, and former Lord Mayor of the City of London.Born in British India, Finch was educated at Felsted School and the College of Law. He joined Linklaters in 1969, progressed to partner in 1974, and head of real estate from 1997 to 1999...

 
Solicitor
City of London Solicitors' Company
The City of London Solicitors' Company is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was formed in 1908; the City granted it Livery status in 1944. The Company received a Royal Charter in 1958. Prior to 1969, when the City of London Law Society was formed, the Company functioned...

2004 Sir Michael Savory  Poulter
Worshipful Company of Poulters
The Worshipful Company of Poulters is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. In 1368, the organisation received the power to regulate the sale of poultry, swans, pigeons, rabbits and small game...

2005 Sir David Brewer
David William Brewer
Sir David William Brewer CMG JP is the Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London, appointed by Queen Elizabeth II in May 2008. He was Lord Mayor of London between 2005 and 2006.-Early life:...

 
Merchant Taylor
Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors
The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors is one of the 108 Livery Companies of the City of London.The Company, originally known as the Guild and Fraternity of St...

2006 Sir John Stuttard
John Stuttard
Sir John Boothman Stuttard is an English chartered accountant and was the Lord Mayor of the City of London in 2006/2007.-Early life:...

 
Glazier
Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass
The Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Guild of Glaziers, or makers of Glass, the Company's forerunner, existed as early as 1328. It received a Royal Charter of incorporation in 1638...

2007 Sir David Lewis
David Lewis (Lord Mayor)
Sir David Thomas Rowell Lewis was the Lord Mayor of the City of London for 2007–08.Lewis was born in Hong Kong. He is the grandson of a sheep-farmer from Carmarthenshire, Wales and regards himself as Welsh. He was educated at the Dragon School and St Edward's School, Oxford before studying...

 
Solicitor
City of London Solicitors' Company
The City of London Solicitors' Company is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Company was formed in 1908; the City granted it Livery status in 1944. The Company received a Royal Charter in 1958. Prior to 1969, when the City of London Law Society was formed, the Company functioned...

2008 Ian Luder
Ian Luder
Ian David Luder CBE was the 681st Lord Mayor of the City of London, serving from 2008 to 2009.Luder attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree then studied economics and economic history at University College London before working as a tax accountant for Arthur Andersen and later Grant...

 
Cooper
Worshipful Company of Coopers
The Worshipful Company of Coopers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation of Coopers existed in 1422; it received a Royal Charter of incorporation in 1501...

2009 Nick Anstee
Nick Anstee
Nicholas John Anstee was the 682nd Lord Mayor of the City of London, from 2009 to 2010. He continues as the Alderman of the Ward of Aldersgate and has served as a representative in the City since his election as a Common Councillor in 1987.-Early life:Alderman Anstee was born in Moreton-in-Marsh,...

 
Butcher
Worshipful Company of Butchers
The Worshipful Company of Butchers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, England. Records indicate that an organization of Butchers existed as early as 975; the Butchers' Guild, the direct predecessor of the present Company, was granted the right to regulate the trade in 1331. The...

2010 Michael Bear
Michael Bear (Lord Mayor)
Michael Bear was the 683rd Lord Mayor of London, whose one-year term began on 12 November 2010 and ended 11 November 2011. He is the Alderman of the ward of Portsoken and previously represented that Ward as Common Councilman and Deputy...

 
Pavior
Worshipful Company of Paviors
The Worshipful Company of Paviors is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The Paviors were formed at some point prior to 1276; they were responsible for the paving and maintenance of London's streets. It received a Royal Charter in 1672...

2011 David Wootton
David Wootton
David Wootton is the 684th Lord Mayor of London, from 2011 to 2012. He is the Alderman of the Ward of Aldersgate.-Early life:...

 
Fletchers
Worshipful Company of Fletchers
The Worshipful Company of Fletchers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, England. Originally, the Bowyers and Fletchers formed one organisation. However, in 1371, the Fletchers petitioned the Lord Mayor of the City of London to divide into their own Company...

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