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List Of Lord 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 of Westminster Lord Mayors of Westminster References {{Lists of Lord Mayors in the United Kingdom Westminster Westminster is an area of Central London, part of the wider City of Westminster. The area, which extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street, has many visitor attractions and historic landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayors
In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well as the means by which a mayor is elected or otherwise mandated. Depending on the system chosen, a mayor may be the chief executive officer of the municipal government, may simply chair a multi-member governing body with little or no independent power, or may play a solely ceremonial role. A mayor's duties and responsibilities may be to appoint and oversee municipal managers and employees, provide basic governmental services to constituents, and execute the laws and ordinances passed by a municipal governing body (or mandated by a state, territorial or national governing body). Options for selection of a mayor include direct election by the public, or selection by an elected governing council or board. The term ''mayor'' shares a linguistic o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Maria Gatti
Sir John Maria Emilio Gatti (13 August 1872 – 14 September 1929) was an Anglo- Swiss theatre manager, restaurateur and businessman who was also a prominent Conservative politician in London local government. Born as Joannes Maria Aemilius Gatti in Dongio, in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland, he was the eldest son of the entrepreneur Agostino Gatti. The Gatti family had built up a large family business in Westminster, including the Adelphi and Vaudeville Theatres, a string of cafe-restaurants and the Charing Cross and Strand Electricity Supply Corporation Ltd, which supplied power to most of the West End of London. Gatti was educated at Stonyhurst College and St John's College, Oxford, before being called to the bar at the Inner Temple. He married Lily Mary Lloyd in 1897 and they had seven children. In the same year his father died, and he took over the family businesses along with his younger brother Rocco Joseph Stefano Gatti. His business interests, in particular the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dame Shirley Porter
Shirley, Lady Porter (''née'' Cohen; born 29 November 1930), styled between 1991 and 2003 as Dame Shirley Porter, is a British politician who led Westminster City Council in London, representing the Conservative Party. She is the daughter and heiress of Sir Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco supermarkets. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991 by John Major after delivering victory in Westminster for the Conservatives in the 1990 elections, but was stripped of this title in 2003. While leader of Westminster City Council, Porter oversaw the "Building Stable Communities" policy — later described as the " homes for votes scandal" — and was consequently accused of gerrymandering. The policy was judged illegal by the district auditor, and a surcharge of £27m levied on her in 1996. This was later raised to £42 million with interest and costs. She eventually settled in 2004, paying a final settlement of £12.3 million. Porter moved to Herz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Norton (lawyer)
Sir Walter Charles Norton (24 May 1896 – 22 October 1974) was an English solicitor. He was managing partner of Norton Rose Fulbright, chairman of The Hurlingham Club, president of The Law Society in 1955–56 and Conservative Mayor of the City of Westminster for 1957–58. He was knighted in 1956. Norton represented Grosvenor Ward as a councillor on the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster from 1948 to 1962, when he was elevated to Alderman. He continued to serve in this position on the newly established Westminster City Council Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London, England. The city is divided into 20 wards, each electing three councillors. The council is currently composed of 31 Labour Party members and 23 Cons ..., which replaced the former borough, until 1971. References 1896 births 1974 deaths Presidents of the Law Society of England and Wales Recipients of the Military Cross Politics of the City of We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Ives (UK Parliament Constituency)
St Ives is a parliamentary List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency covering the western end of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The constituency has been represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2015 by Derek Thomas (politician), Derek Thomas, a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative MP. The area's voters produced the 22nd closest result in the 2017 United Kingdom general election, 2017 general election; a winning margin of 312 votes. Since 1992, the same locally leading two parties' candidates who were fielded (varying at different times) have won at least 27.2% of the vote each; the third placed candidate, that of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, has fluctuated between 8.2% and 15.2% of share of the vote. Constituency profile The seat covers the southern end of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Tourism is a significant sector in this former mining area. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greville Howard (St Ives MP)
Lieutenant-Commander Greville Reginald Charles Howard (7 September 1909 – 20 September 1987) was a British Conservative and National Liberal politician. Howard was a younger son of Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk, by his wife Margaret (née Leiter). Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, was his elder brother. Howard was a member of Westminster City Council, and served as Mayor of Westminster from 1946 to 1947."Cracroft's Peerage: The Complete Guide to the British Peerage & Baronetage""Suffolk, Earl of (E, 1603)", ''The Peerage Research Trust''. Retrieved 27 May 2014. He served as Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ... (MP) for St Ives from 1950 until he stood down at the 1966 general election. Howard married Mary, daughter of William Smit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twickenham (UK Parliament Constituency)
Twickenham is a House of Commons constituency in South-West London, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Munira Wilson of the Liberal Democrats. History Since 1945, the boundaries of the seat have been similar to those of the abolished Municipal Borough of Twickenham. From 1931 until 1983, Twickenham was a safe seat of the Conservative Party and from 1983 until 1997 a marginal seat for that party. Liberal Democrat Vince Cable gained the seat during the 1997 landslide Conservative defeat and held it until 2015. The seat was one of very few in Britain that gave the Liberal Democrats a majority of votes in the 2005 and 2010 elections, being their sixth best performance nationally in 2010. Cable was Secretary of State for Business from 2010 to 2015, but unexpectedly lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Tania Mathias in the 2015 general election during the nationwide collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote. Cable regained the seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Keeling
Sir Edward Herbert Keeling, MC (1883 The ''Times'' obituary and other sources seem to have mistakenly assumed a birth year of 1888, which is when the birth of an Edward George Keeling was registered in Market Drayton. – 23 November 1954) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1935 to 1954. The younger son of the Reverend William Hulton Keeling, headmaster of Bradford Grammar School, he was educated at Bradford and University College, Oxford, graduating with a master's degree in jurisprudence. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. In 1902 he received employment in the Supply and Accounting Department of the Admiralty. His siblings include the social activist Dorothy Keeling and the Canadian communist writer Margaret Fairley. Keeling moved to be a member of the Harbour Commission in Burma, then a British colony. With the outbreak of the First World War, Keeling received a commission as an officer in the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appleby (UK Parliament Constituency)
Appleby was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Westmorland in England. It existed for two separate periods: from 1295 to 1832, and from 1885 to 1918. Appleby was enfranchised as parliamentary borough in 1295, and abolished by the Great Reform Act of 1832. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) using the bloc vote system. It was represented in the House of Commons of England until 1707, in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. Its best-known MP was William Pitt the Younger who became prime minister in 1783 at the age of 24. For the 1885 general election the Redistribution of Seats Act created a county constituency of the same name, which returned a single MP elected by the first-past-the-post system. The county constituency was abolished at the 1918 general election. History The borough (1295–1832) The parliamentary borough of Appleby consisted of the town of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Rigg (British Politician)
Richard Rigg OBE (27 August 1877 – 29 August 1942) was a British barrister and Liberal MP for Appleby, before defecting to the Conservative Party. Early life and education Rigg was born in Windermere on the 27th August 1877, the only son of innkeeper John Rigg (1845-1927) and his wife Sarah Ann Sutton (1852-1938). From 1896 he was a prominent volunteer with the 2nd (Westmorland) Volunteer Border Regiment, and was promoted to captain the following year. He studied at Gonville & Caius College at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1900. In January 1899 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple and was also a member of the King's Inn, Dublin. He also served in a wide range of public roles, including as president of Westmorland County Football Association. Political career In 1899, the North Westmoreland Liberal Association invited Rigg to contest the Appleby division of Westmorland, which had been held by Conservative Sir Joseph Savory since 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westminster St George's (UK Parliament Constituency)
Westminster St George's, originally named St George's, Hanover Square, was a parliamentary constituency in Central London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system of election. History The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was then named "St George Hanover Square" after the parish of the same name. It was renamed in 1918 as "Westminster St George's", and abolished in 1950. Boundaries 1885–1918 From 1885 to 1918, when the constituency was known as St George Hanover Square, it was defined as being coterminous with the civil parish of the same name. In 1900 the parish was included for local government purposes in the area of the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster. This did not affect the name or boundaries of the constituency until 1918.London Government Act 1899, Schedule 1 1918–1950 The Boundary Commission report of 1918 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Jared Palmer Howard
Sir Arthur Jared Palmer Howard (30 May 1896 – 26 April 1971) was a British Army officer and politician. Howard was the youngest son of Margaret Charlotte Howard, 2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal and brother of the 3rd Baron. He was Mayor of Westminster for 1936–1937. He was Conservative Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ... (MP) for Westminster St George's from 1945 to 1950. Through his wife, Lady Leonora Stanley Baldwin, Howard was the son-in-law of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Lucy Baldwin, Countess Baldwin of Bewdley. References 1896 births 1971 deaths UK MPs 1945–1950 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Place of birth missing Members of Westminster Metropolitan Borough Counc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
